Manchin says he will release his permitting reform bill tomorrow, ahead of a CR vote next week.

"I've never seen stranger bedfellows than Bernie Sanders and the extreme liberal left siding with Republican leadership," he says, calling it "revenge politics" after his IRA vote. "Take me out of it — it shouldn't be revenge," he concludes. "That's going to be hard to go home and explain, that we did this and you voted against this because of Joe Manchin."

Vote-a-Rama thread 🧵🧶🪡

The Portman amendment just passed, as Joe Manchin joined with all Republicans in passing an amendment that would keep $300 UI through July.
Dem aide says once their agreement is scored, that will supersede this. Senate is now voting on a Collins amendment, which appears to substitute in a $650 billion target plan — likely an updated version of what Republicans proposed at the WH last month.

Ron Wyden tells me in interview Dems are coalescing around a possible UI change: $300 a week through October 4, but with tax forgiveness on 2020 UI benefits up to $10,200. (Usual in flux caveats apply.) "You don't have an August cliff, which was a concern of all Democrats, and you have tax forgiveness," Wyden told me. "You had to be able to drill clearly into a couple of key features that kept all Democrats in line with what we've heard them talking about as their priorities."

Lisa Murkowski told @burgessev and me that she has no plans to leave the Republican Party, telling us that she "absolutely no desire to move over to the Democrat side of the aisle — I can't be somebody that I'm not." 1/ "As kind of disjointed as things may be on the Republican side, there is no way you could talk to me into going over to the other side — that's not who I am, that's not who I will ever be.” She confirmed that she did not vote for Donald Trump, and instead wrote someone in. 2/

Republican Yeses on impeachment:
Cheney
Gonzalez (OH)
Katko
Kinzinger
Meijer
Rice from S.C.
Upton Herrera Beutler makes it official, bringing the total to eight Republicans.

Taking a photo with the statue of Rosa Parks in Statuary Hall.

Republicans are complaining about the magnetometers — Rodney Davis calls it “bullshit” and tells Hoyer that they’re “taking valuable resources completely away from where it needs to be without any consultation.” normally lawmakers are exempt from the usual magnetometers on Capitol Hill, and now they have to get through one every time they vote.

the Capitol Hill press corps is something else, but particularly grateful for @npfandos @erinschaff @lukebroadwater and @AnnaMoneymaker today nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/… I just want to hug a lot of people

when the needle is BACK (and also you can retire the phrase “ahead of two runoff races in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate”) nytimes.com/interactive/20… 🍞 loafing until results start to come in 🍞

nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/… “Mr. Biden’s victory amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump by millions of voters exhausted with his divisive conduct and chaotic administration, and was delivered by an unlikely alliance of women, people of color, old and young voters and a sliver of disaffected Republicans.”

TWELVE HOURS LATER, in the Bangor Hilton Garden Inn parking lot —

https://twitter.com/ESCochrane/status/1323855643300843520

Susan Collins says Sara Gideon has conceded the race, with a “very gracious call.”

GOOD MORNING from the House budget hearing on the president's budget, featuring Russell Vought, the acting OMB director.
Reminder: both Pelosi and McConnell have said they want approps bills written to the levels in the budget deal, so this proposal is....not happening. Yarmuth notes that this is Vought's first Hill appearance since Trump's impeachment. While they are not going to "rehash that entire proceess," he wants Vought to speak to OMB's "adherence to the ICA." Refresher on that here > nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/…

Republicans are VERY angry about Schiff’s decision to reference that CBS “head on a pike” report. Murkowski says “that’s where he lost me.” Barrasso says “whatever gains he may have made, he lost all of it — plus some — tonight.” Several senators in the room shook their heads, audibly said “that’s not true.” Ernst and McSally — two of those swing states Schiff has been talking about! — were visibly upset as they whispered about it after.