KYRSTEN SINEMA

Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challenging.

Democrats have secured their majority in the Senate for the next two years.

The senator’s remarks about the Respect for Marriage Act were a sorry/not sorry, passive aggressive defense of her self-proclaimed bipartisanship.

The election was still too close to call Friday, with 31,000 votes separating Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs from GOP opponent Kari Lake.

The turnout machine that left-leaning Latino activists have built since Arizona enacted a tough crackdown on immigrants will be put to the test in Tuesday's election.

The Senate plan written by Marco Rubio of Florida is the closest Congress has come to implementing permanent Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. in decades.

Mark Kelly is still expected to win, but if he doesn't, can Democrats make peace with Kyrsten Sinema and hold onto their remaining U.S. Senate seat?

The Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate from Arizona, Marc Victor, dropped out of the race Tuesday and urged his supporters to vote for Republican Blake Masters.

President Biden was asked why he stated he wants to have 53 Democratic Senators after the Midterms. The reporter asked if he was referring to Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema, from Arizona, and Joe Manchin, from West Virginia. Although they are both technically in the Democratic Party, they act as Moderates and will sometimes vote with the Republican Party.

President Joe Biden is promising that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law.

Dozens of migrants were apprehended by Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies as they unloaded from a tractor trailer about 12 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday.

A year ago, Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was all over cable news, building a national profile as a defender of democracy and raking in cash for her campaign for governor.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., was again the target of fierce media criticism for speaking kindly about Mitch McConnell, but a double standard may be at play.

ABC News featured an article and a tweet that claimed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s, D-Ariz., ongoing support of the filibuster against Democratic pressure was “controversial.”

Donald Trump's longtime adviser claimed that documentary video footage showing him endorsing violence was a "deep fake."

The "Countdown" host said he went out with the Arizona lawmaker in 2010 and 2011, and had some thoughts about her alliance with Mitch McConnell.

The Biden administration is planning a crackdown on hidden airline fees. The administration wants to require airlines to post extra costs, like baggage and change fees, with their flight prices so that customers know the "true cost" of airline tickets.

Many Democrats, including Biden, say the filibuster leads to gridlock by giving a minority of lawmakers the ability to veto. Liberal groups are already raising money to fund an eventual Democratic primary challenger. “If you don’t fit in in today’s Washington, trust me, they want to kick you out,” Sinema said. “She is, in my view, one of the most effective first-term senators I’ve seen in my time in the Senate,” McConnell said. “She is today what we have too few of in the Democratic Party — a genuine moderate and a dealmaker.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says Americans prefer politicians who work across the aisle.

While speaking at an event held by the McConnell Center, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, spoke about her unlikely friendship with Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky. Although Senator Cinema is a registered Democrat, she is one of the few Democrats who is not always aligned with the Democratic party. One that is rooted in our commonalities, including are pragmatic approach to legislating, our respect for the Senate as an institution, our love for our home states, and a dogged determination on behalf of our constituents.

The consequences of drought and efforts to funnel billions of dollars toward securing water supplies in the West are becoming larger issues in two of the most consequential races for the U.S. Senate.

Democrats are punting a vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages until after the November midterm elections, a blow for the legislation that comes days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to put the Senate on the record on the issue “in the coming weeks.”.

Earlier this summer, the House passed the Respect for Marriage Act by a vote of 267 to 157.

Russia has imposed sanctions on 25 Americans, including actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller.

As polarization widens and electoral margins narrow, centrist politicians like Joe Manchin will continue to wield the crucial votes.

After more than a year of debate, Biden's sweeping infrastructure bill is becoming law — albeit a significantly smaller version of his Build Back Better plan.

President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and now he has signed into law legislation with a slimmer version of that idea.

In an unusual arrangement, Wagner will take over Maddow’s old 9 p.m. slot four nights each week, starting Tuesday, while the star sticks to Mondays only.

Seven Western U.S. states face a deadline from the federal government to come up with a plan to use substantially less Colorado River water in 2023.

The revelation comes after Sen. Sinema single-handedly thwarted her party's long-standing goal of raising taxes on such investors.

She's been far more magnanimous since, praising private equity in 2016 from the House floor for providing "billions of dollars each year to Main Street businesses” and later interning at a private equity mogul's boutique winery in northern California during the 2020 congressional recess. During a two-week period in September alone, Sinema collected $47,100 in contributions from 16 high-ranking officials from the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, records show. Employees and executives of KKR, another private equity behemoth, contributed $44,100 to Sinema during a two-month span in late 2021. In some cases, the families of private equity managers joined in. David Belluck, a partner at the firm Riverside Partners, gave a $5,800 max-out contribution to Sinema one day in late June.

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has received nearly $1 million in campaign contributions over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose interests she has staunchly defended in Congress.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan. The bill, with Sinema's alterations intact, was given final approval by Congress on Friday and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden next week.

The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change.

Democrats have pushed their landmark climate and health care bill through Congress, handing an election-year victory to President Joe Biden.

In exchange for supporting the Inflation Reduction Act, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., insisted that the legislation leave in place a tax loophole that benefits high earners in the private equity and real estate industries. That deal set off a flurry of media speculation about her motives, but it wasn’t the only successful request she made in order to secure her vote for the landmark climate legislation.

Wall Street lobbyists targeted Kyrsten Sinema to keep the carried interest loophole intact before she announced it would not be part of a climate and tax bill.

A proposed tax tweak to carried interest, compensation paid to private equity and hedge fund managers, didn't survive in the final Inflation Reduction Act.

The tax, climate and energy passed by Senate Democrats includes a 15% minimum tax on the domestic profits of large American companies. This roundabout method to collect more money from corporations, known as a minimum book tax, is critical to the deal, since it provides much of the new revenue to fund the energy investments and deficit reduction that Democrats are hoping to tout in the midterm elections this November.

It's all paid for largely with new corporate taxes, including a 15% minimum tax on big corporations to ensure they don't skip out on paying any taxes at all. HELP PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCEThe bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for people who are purchasing their own health care policies. In its place, Democrats, with Sinema’s nod, will impose a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade. The bill sticks with Biden's original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.

But concerns over objections to the new 15% corporate minimum tax that private equity firms and other industries threatened to slow the progress. Each tested Democrats' ability to hold together a compromise negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., with progressives, Manchin and Sinema. It was the bill's chief protection for the 180 million people with private health coverage they get through work or purchase themselves. Democrats wanted to extend the $35 cap to private insurers but it ran afoul of Senate rules. Most Republicans voted to strip it from the package, though in a sign of the political potency of health costs, seven GOP senators joined Democrats trying to preserve it.

Senate Democrats have agreed to eleventh-hour changes to their marquee economic legislation, they announced late Thursday, clearing the major impediment to pushing one of President Joe Biden’s paramount election-year priorities through the chamber in coming days. It's all paid for largely with new corporate taxes, including a 15% minimum tax on big corporations to ensure they don't skip out on paying any taxes at all. Votes are expected to fall along party lines, with all Senate Democrats in favor, and all Republicans opposed. HELP PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCEThe bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for people who are purchasing their own health care policies.

The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what President Joe Biden first envisioned with his effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

The Senate has approved Democrats' big election-year economic package.

Several Democratic senators are saying they will vote “no” on any amendments introduced during a Senate vote-a-rama session in an effort to keep the party’s major climate, tax and health bill on course to pass. “We have a deal to take the biggest climate action in U.S. history. Every Senate Dem has agreed to it.…

The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it mostly unscathed Saturday, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber's rules arbiter, said provisions must be removed that would force drugmakers to pay rebates if their prices rise above inflation for products they sell to private insurers. Pharmaceutical companies would have to pay those penalties if their prices for drugs bought by Medicare rise too high.

The Arizona senator effectively leverages her power, but her ends are unclear.

One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar. There are tax breaks for buying electric vehicles, including a $4,000 tax credit for purchase of used electric vehicles and $7,500 for new ones. Keeping the tax break for the wealthy deprives the party of $14 billion in revenue they were counting on to help pay for the package. In its place, Democrats, with Sinema's nod, will impose a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade. WHAT'S LEFT BEHINDThis latest package after 18 months of start-stop negotiations leaves behind many of Biden's more ambitious goals.

The estimated $740 billion economic package from Democrats is nowhere near what President Joe Biden first envisioned with his effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems.

Sinema backed the bill after the removal of a provision to narrow the so-called carried interest loophole, a tax benefit that both Biden and Trump opposed.

Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill. Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden's big economic, health care and climate bill. Instead, the final bill will keep the tax rate at 20% instead of hiking it to the typical 37%. Still, in her short time in the Senate, Sinema has proven herself to be a serious study who understands intricacies of legislation and a hard-driving dealmaker who does not flinch. Environmental leaders, who have been involved in talks on the bill since last year, said Sinema has helped shape the bill all along.

Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill.

Sinema said she would not vote for the bill" or even vote to let debate begin unless private equity tax was removed from the legislation, Schumer told reporters. “So we had no choice.”He spoke a day after he and Sinema announced compromise revisions to the environment, health care and tax package. Those include taxing big business, restraining prescription drug prices, slowing climate change, helping families afford private insurance and trimming federal deficits. Democrats plan for the Senate to begin considering the bill Saturday, and the House will return next Friday for votes. In a breakthrough Thursday night, Sinema said she'd agreed to changes in the legislation and was ready to “move forward” on the bill.

With Democrats poised to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, their signature legislation on health care and climate change, all eyes were on the senior senator from Arizona.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats have made changes in their giant economic bill that include paring part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations.

Local opposition to solar and wind farms could be a huge barrier to clean energy.

The tax, climate and energy proposal by Senate Democrats includes a 15% minimum tax on the domestic profits of large American companies. This roundabout method to collect more money from corporations, known as a minimum book tax, is critical to the deal, since it provides more than 40% of the new revenue to fund the energy investments and deficit reduction that Democrats are hoping to tout in the midterm elections this November.

Its approval would let Dems appeal to voters by boasting they're moving to reduce inflation, address climate change and increase U.S. energy security.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a centrist who was seen as the pivotal vote, said in a statement that she had agreed to changes in the measure's tax and energy provisions.

Senate Democrats have reached an accord on eleventh-hour changes to their top-priority economic legislation, they announced late Thursday, clearing a major hurdle to moving the measure through the chamber in coming days.

The Arizona senator said late Thursday that she will move forward with the Inflation Reduction Act after Democrats reached an agreement to remove the carried interest tax provision.

Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — Senate Democrats have reached an accord on eleventh-hour changes to their top-priority economic legislation, they announced late Thursday, clearing a major hurdle to moving the measure through the chamber in coming days. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said lawmakers had achieved a compromise “that I believe will receive the support” of all Democrats in the chamber. His party needs unanimity to move the measure through the 50-50 Senate, along with Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote. The proposed tax would raise an estimated $313 billion over a decade, the legislation's largest revenue raiser. Sinema has been a critic of another proposal to raise taxes on executives of hedge funds and other private equity firms.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly said Democrats are on track to pass the Inflation Reduction Act in the coming days, but a few roadblocks still stand in the way.

It would raise revenue with tax boosts, beefed up IRS tax collections and curbs on drug prices, which would save money for the government and patients. The effort was described by a Democrat familiar with the talks who would speak only on condition of anonymity. The proposed tax would raise an estimated $313 billion over a decade, the legislation's largest revenue raiser. Sinema has been a critic of another proposal to raise taxes on executives of hedge funds and other private equity firms. Republicans want to kill as much of the bill as possible, either with MacDonough's rulings or with nonstop votes expected to last well into Sunday or beyond.

Senate Democrats say they have reached an accord on changes to their marquee economic legislation, clearing the major hurdle to pushing one of President Joe Biden’s leading election-year priorities through the chamber in coming days.

Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.”.

Joe Biden President Joe Biden speaks about the economy during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. The Inflation Reduction Act is the product of secret negotiations between Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader in the Senate. The deal’s surprise emergence last week presented the White House with the tantalizing possibility of a major victory ahead of November’s midterm elections. The bill’s very name — Inflation Reduction Act — is an obvious attempt to counter that very argument. At a news briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre charged that Republicans wanted to "protect tax welfare for the wealthy and corporations."

2 Senate GOP leader John Thune of South Dakota. In a bow to dominant voter concerns about gasoline prices and overall consumer costs, Democrats call the bill the Inflation Reduction Act. McConnell said that study showed the Democrats' bill would “actually increase inflation in the short term and do nothing for inflation in the long term." Democrats have cited a Moody's Analytics report saying the bill would “nudge the economy and inflation in the right direction." One could imagine a proposal preventing the bill from taking effect unless inflation, or gasoline prices, fall to certain levels.

Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the upcoming battle over an economic package the Democrats want to push through the Senate.

Obama and Trump both tried and failed to close the carried interest loophole. Biden's big bill hangs in the balance with Sinema still undecided.

The Michigan Republican Party said it canceled a Tuesday evening primary watch party in Lansing after a man came to the party's headquarters and threatened to shoot up the building and burn it down.

The "carried interest loophole" allows hedge fund managers to tax their income at a lower rate than an ordinary salary. The provision is unpopular — yet it has survived many attempts to eliminate it.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is working on getting Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-Ariz.) support for the deal he cut with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). We’ll also look at the latest data on the strength of the labor market and more sanctions on Russia. But first, Dee Snider is going after a top GOP candidate. Welcome…

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the June Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's views remained a mystery as party leaders eye votes later this week on their emerging economic legislation.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is declining to endorse Joe Biden if the president seeks a second term in 2024 and is refusing to say whether he wants Democrats to retain control of Congress after the November elections.

In a story published July 30, 2022, The Associated Press reported that the Congressional Budget Office estimated that an insulin bill would increase the price of the drug.

An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to address global warming and could help President Joe Biden come close to meeting his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

Some older Americans are cheering news of a deal on Capitol Hill that could lead to lower drug costs.

President Joe Biden is hailing a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care and tax initiatives as a giant step forward for the country.

It was launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America.

President Joe Biden says he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade.

The House has sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades.

The Senate has approved a bipartisan gun violence bill.

Last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have produced a groundswell for change in Congress.

Democratic and Republican senators are at odds over how to keep firearms from dangerous people.

Many of the nation’s most vulnerable Democrats are actively trying to distance themselves from Washington — and their party — as the midterm season enters its next phase.

After wrapping up the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, President Joe Biden turned his attention from foreign policy to politics.

Less than 48 hours after a gunman stormed an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers in his home state of Texas, Sen. John Cornyn was tapped to lead gun policy negotiations in the Senate.

After two years at the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, the U.S. could soon have to begin taking a number.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first Black woman on the high court.

The Biden administration’s decision to end sweeping asylum limits at the border this May satisfied demands by prominent Democrats.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she'll vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget for next year would trim federal deficits and boost taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

The “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” included in President Joe Biden's proposed budget is part of the administration’s effort to reduce the federal deficit.

Arizona has long been fertile ground for a social conservative agenda, with some of the nation’s toughest laws against abortion and a history of restricting LGBTQ rights.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has announced his intention to support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, pushing her one step closer to confirmation.

Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden has vowed in his first State of the Union address to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus.