In the House, Democratic factionalism has posed no impediment to Pelosi’s early legislative push, with near-unanimous Democratic backing for the party’s ethics, campaign finance and voting rights bill and a policing bill and unanimous support for an LGBTQ civil rights bill.
In the week of March 8, House Democrats plan to pass a bill to expand background checks for gun sales and to bolster union organizing . The following week, party leaders plan to bring up a bill to reauthorize programs combating violence against women and another extending the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. If factionalism emerges, it will be a surprise.
By contrast, factionalism has surfaced in Democratic primaries, with progressives gaining strength in House races and moderates pushing back to secure Biden’s win in the presidential contest.
In 2020, incumbent House Democrats Eliot L. Engel of New York, William Lacy Clay of Missouri and Daniel Lipinski of Illinois lost their seats to progressives Mondaire Jones, Cori Bush and Marie Newman, respectively. That followed the 2018 progressive wins of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna S. Pressley over Joseph Crowley in New York and Michael E. Capuano in Massachusetts, respectively. But that demonstration of factionalism has not presented serious problems for Pelosi.
It still could, as Democrats move beyond the coronavirus and the bills that have long united them. Progressive anger will mount as most of those measures stack up in the Senate, blocked by a GOP filibuster that moderate Democrats are unwilling to eliminate. And Schumer is among those who has to worry about a primary challenge from his left next year.
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