House Democrats headed to nearby Leesburg, Virginia, for an annual retreat billed as an issues conference. Lawmakers looked at their phones Thursday afternoon eager for news about the Senate vote and anxious that their colleagues would cave.
We keep hearing this mandate language when in fact, the election was far closer than people will give credit to and at the end of the day, we’re basically an evenly split nation,” Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, told HuffPost. “And right now, we’re being forced by a slim majority in the House of Representatives to eat what they’re dishing out, and we’re not willing to do that.”
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misidentified Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as a Republican. He is a Democrat.
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