Follow Us   © 1996-2020 News Communication When it comes to choosing a vice president, has different reasons for selecting each contender. Biden likes Sen. ’s (D-Mass.) ideas and proposals. He admires Sen. ’s (D-Calif.) lawyerly straightforwardness and moxie. Susan Rice, President Obama’s former national security adviser, worked alongside him in the White House and Biden has seen her work ethic up close. But Sen. represents something close to Biden’s heart: She’s an American hero. The Illinois Democrat, a veteran who lost both legs in the Iraq...…Follow Us   © 1996-2020 News Communication When it comes to choosing a vice president, has different reasons for selecting each contender. Biden likes Sen. ’s (D-Mass.) ideas and proposals. He admires Sen. ’s (D-Calif.) lawyerly straightforwardness and moxie. Susan Rice, President Obama’s former national security adviser, worked alongside him in the White House and Biden has seen her work ethic up close. But Sen. represents something close to Biden’s heart: She’s an American hero. The Illinois Democrat, a veteran who lost both legs in the Iraq...WW…

by Amie Parnes and Alexander Bolton - 04/14/21 6:00 AM ET✕Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been seen as an early impediment to progressives and his own president’s agenda in the first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency.Manchin opposed a $15 federal minimum wage, doesn’t want to raise the corporate tax to 28 percent as proposed by Biden and wants to keep the filibuster, which requires Democrats to get 60 votes on major legislation to steer bills to Biden’s desk.The West Virginia Democrat has even been cool to using budget reconciliation rules to get around the filibuster, something Biden...…by Amie Parnes and Alexander Bolton - 04/14/21 6:00 AM ET✕Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been seen as an early impediment to progressives and his own president’s agenda in the first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency.Manchin opposed a $15 federal minimum wage, doesn’t want to raise the corporate tax to 28 percent as proposed by Biden and wants to keep the filibuster, which requires Democrats to get 60 votes on major legislation to steer bills to Biden’s desk.The West Virginia Democrat has even been cool to using budget reconciliation rules to get around the filibuster, something Biden...WW…