The Senate adjourned for the year this morning after a marathon of votes that lasted throughout the day Friday, into a rare all-night session and threatened to drag into next week without an agreement.
The Senate wrapped up its work for the year, with Democrats punting work on Build Back Better and a debate over changing the rules into 2022.
As part of the deal, the Senate confirmed roughly 50 nominees during the lengthy session that started on Friday and wrapped in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning, including long-stalled ambassadors and several district court judges. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer has vowed for weeks that the Senate would pass Biden's Build Back Better legislation by Christmas, an ambitious timeline given divisions within his own caucus and ongoing conversations with the Senate parliamentarian about the details of the bill."Senate Democrats are working to pass Build Back Better and send it to the president's desk as soon as possible," Schumer said.
Some members of Schumer's caucus had wanted him to bring the Build Back Better legislation to the floor even without knowing if Manchin or Sen. Kyrsten Sinema would help start debate. "We're getting ready to continue to make progress on working with the parliamentarian. What we've got coming up is the bipartisan presentation," said Sen. Ron Wyden , who chairs the Finance Committee.
Though Democrats have been having behind-the-scenes talks on voting rights legislation for months, those hit new urgency this week as they weighed trying to pivot amid serious roadblocks on Biden's spending bill.
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