带走里克·克莱因
时钟通常是乔·拜登总统的朋友。
这与他似乎放慢了脚步有关。在他的前任狂热的四年后，拜登设法降低了华盛顿的静息新闻心率，尽管最后几天还是很疯狂。
然而现在，立法日程和现实世界的事件正在重新安排优先事项，并威胁要留下几个大项目。这给民主党基础的关键组成部分带来了压力，而此时政党团结对拜登的议程至关重要。
本周，两党和民主党都迎来了软截止日期基础设施措施。预计参议院将在周三对这两项进行测试投票，尽管实际上这两项都没有经过正式的成本估算。
A联邦法官的裁决周五，针对儿童入境者的延期行动计划给移民带来了新的紧迫性，特别是“梦想家”的状况，白宫和民主党人希望增加可以成为预算和解进程一部分的语言。
投票权尽管拜登和副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯上周承诺施加压力，得克萨斯州议员也掀起了一场疾风骤雨，但联邦层面仍停滞不前。海地和古巴的动荡带来了新的外交政策挑战，而这个国家离阿富汗还有半个世界的距离。
议员们需要在未来几周内达成协议，提高债务上限，同时通胀担忧全面上升。然后，当然，那是新冠肺炎，滞后的疫苗接种和激增的变种威胁着政治没有好答案的倒退。
在拜登迄今为止取得成功的地方，他在很大程度上是通过耐心做到的——让争端自行解决，并相信国会领导人的唠叨细节。
接下来的几天和几周将会带来一些投票，这些投票可能决定议程的成败。并非拜登政党的所有部分都会对选举结果感到满意。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
一百女人会下凡周一在国会山，为了向周年纪念并强调现代战争为了权利。
“我们将一起呼吁国会的不道德阻挠，呼吁停止阻挠议事，并要求所有人的投票权和生活工资。穷人运动的利兹·特奥哈里斯牧师和罗兹·佩莱斯牧师在一封联名信中写道:“我们将一起冒着因这些权利而被捕的风险，通过我们的行动，召回来到我们面前的妇女。
就在游行前几天，国会黑人核心小组主席、众议员乔伊斯·比蒂和其他活动人士在一次游行示威中被捕不合作主义在国会山——努力推动通道联邦投票立法。
参议院的阻挠再次出现中心焦点在美国最高法院支持亚利桑那州投票限制后的辩论中，民主党人和投票倡导者称之为基于种族的歧视。
由于参议院平分秋色，温和的民主党人似乎在阻挠议事上表现得不谦虚，乔·拜登总统最近在费城的讲话中也明显没有提到这一程序关于投票权的发言，停滞不前的选举立法的前进道路尚不明朗。和参议院民主党人的压力在这个问题上采取行动只会随着中期选举的临近而升级。
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
德克萨斯州的民主党人正走向他们的第二周在华盛顿，一个新的障碍即将到来——在他们代表团的五名成员检测呈阳性的消息中，引导任何即将到来的会议和事件新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎),尽管已经完全接种了疫苗。周六有三名成员被确诊，周日又有两名成员被检测出病毒呈阳性。
一名被诊断感染病毒的成员在周末承认了这一进展。“昨天，我的新冠肺炎检测呈阳性，”州众议员西莉亚·伊斯雷尔说发推星期天。“尽管我遇到了挫折，但我将继续前进，为让每个德州人的声音被听到而奋斗。”
在五点之前突破性案例事情曝光后，得克萨斯州议员会见了几位高知名度的议员，包括副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯和西弗吉尼亚州参议员乔·曼钦。美国广播公司新闻记者崔西·特纳报道说，周六，曼钦的办公室入住了参议员会见的得克萨斯州议员被告知，他会见的成员中没有一个检测呈阳性。
周六检测呈阳性的两名议员出席了与副总统哈里斯和她的工作人员。根据哈里斯的首席发言人西蒙·桑德斯的说法，“他们没有与检测呈阳性的人密切接触。”桑德斯指出，副总统和她的工作人员也全部接种了疫苗，“不需要检测或隔离。”
Overstuffed agenda tests Democratic unity: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
The clock has generally been President Joe Biden’s friend.
That goes for how he has seemed to slow the pace. Biden has managed to lower Washington’s resting news heart rate after the frenetic four years of his predecessor, despite even those wild final days.
Now, though, the legislative calendar and real-world events are reordering priority lists and threatening to leave several big items behind. That puts stress on key components of the Democratic base, at a time where party unity is critical for the Biden agenda.
This week brings soft deadlines for both the bipartisan and Democrat-onlyinfrastructure measures. The Senate is expected to hold test votes Wednesday on both, though neither has actually been written or been run through formal cost estimates.
Afederal judge’s rulingFriday on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program brings new urgency to immigration broadly and the state of "Dreamers" specifically, with the White House and Democrats hoping to add language that can be part of the budget reconciliation process.
Voting rightsremain stalled at the federal level, notwithstanding the pressure promised last week by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and the flurry stirred up by Texas lawmakers. Tumult in Haiti and Cuba are bringing new foreign-policy challenges, half a world distant from Afghanistan.
Lawmakers need to craft a deal to raise the debt ceiling in the coming weeks, while inflation concerns rise across the board. Then, of course,there’s COVID-19, with lagging vaccinations and surging variants threatening a backslide that politics doesn’t have a good answer for.
Where Biden has been successful to date, he has largely done so by being patient – letting disputes work themselves out, and trusting congressional leaders with nagging details.
The coming days and weeks will bring votes that could make or break the agenda as it’s been considered. Not all parts of Biden’s party will be happy with the results.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
One hundredwomen will descendon Capitol Hill Monday in an effort to both pay homage tothe anniversaryof the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and to highlight themodern-day fightfor rights.
"Together we will call out the immoral obstructionism of Congress, call for an end to the filibuster and demand voting rights and living wages for all. Together, we will risk arrest for these rights and through our actions recall the women who have come before us," wrote the Rev. Liz Theoharis and Roz Pelles of the Poor People's Campaign in a joint letter.
The march comes just days after Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty was arrested along with other activists in a display ofcivil disobedienceon Capitol Hill -- an effort topush for the passageof federal voting legislation.
The filibuster in the Senate is reemerging asthe central focusof the debate after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld voting restrictions in Arizona that Democrats and voting advocates have called discriminatory on the basis of race.
With the Senate evenly divided, moderate Democrats seemingly immoveable on the filibuster and mention of the procedure glaringly absent from President Joe Biden's recent Philadelphiaaddress on voting rights, the path forward for stalled election legislation is unclear. Andpressure for Senate Democratsto act on the issue will only escalate as the midterms inch closer.
The TIP withAlisa Wiersema
Texas Democrats are heading intotheir second weekin Washington with a new hurdle on the horizon -- navigating any upcoming meetings and events amid news that five members of their delegation tested positive forCOVID-19,despite being fully vaccinated. Three members were diagnosed on Saturday, and two more tested positive for the virus on Sunday.
One of the members who was diagnosed with the virus acknowledged the development over the weekend. "Yesterday, I tested positive for COVID-19," state Rep. Celia Israeltweetedon Sunday. "Despite my setback, I will continue to push forward and fight for every Texan to have their voices heard."
Prior to the fivebreakthrough casescoming to light, the Texas lawmakers met with several high-profile lawmakers, including Vice President Kamala Harris and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. ABC News' Trish Turner reported that, on Saturday,Manchin's office checked inwith the Texas lawmakers with whom the senator met and were told that none of the members in his meeting had tested positive.
Two of the legislators who tested positive on Saturday were present at a meeting withVice President Harrisand her staff on Tuesday. According to Harris’s chief spokesperson, Symone Sanders, "they were not in close contact with those who tested positive.” Sanders noted that the vice president and her staff, who are all also fully vaccinated, “do not need to be tested or quarantined.”
