The Epoch Times by Joseph Lord
New Analysis
As the holiday season begins to wrap up, Senators on both sides of the aisle are preparing for tough midterm battles as Republicans seek to take back Democrats’ one-vote majority in the upper chamber.
The Senate, always an important aspect of the U.S. legislative process, has taken on new significance in recent months due to its peculiar ability to halt legislation sent to it from the less deliberative House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) slim majority in the House have sent several bills to the Senate that have been killed through the Senate’s filibuster power.
Bills that would federalize elections, forbid state restrictions on abortions, and approve the many iterations of President Joe Biden’s monolithic $1.85 trillion Build Back Better budget have all passed easily through the House but have been held up or halted in the Senate…
