Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, both vulnerable senators facing re-election in 2018, took to the Senate floor to block a host of bills and resolutions that usually sail through unnoticed. Brown said on the Senate floor, “They’re like resolutions that don’t mean anything. But they’re nice. But they don’t mean anything to a widow..(who won’t get health care).”
It’s not every Pearl Harbor Day when a U.S. senator objects to honoring Pearl Harbor Day. But that’s exactly what unfolded on the Senate floor Wednesday as two Democrats went to the mat to force the Senate to cut a better health care deal for coal miners.
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, both vulnerable senators facing re-election in 2018, took to the Senate floor to block a host of bills and resolutions that usually sail through unnoticed.
Manchin and Brown want a longer guarantee of health benefits…
