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- Nov 26, 2015
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it's not just liberals who are mad at Manchin, it's his own constituents
www.politico.com
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Though polls show paid family leave has strong support among Democrats and Republicans, and many business groups have warmed to the idea, even it couldn't make the cut as Democratic leaders scrambled to lower the spending bill's cost at Manchin's insistence. The other moderate they have had to appease, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), wasn't opposed to including paid leave.
The White House had told advocates repeatedly that paid leave wouldn’t stand a chance at inclusion in Democrats’ reconciliation bill if they didn’t lobby Manchin hard enough, more than half a dozen sources said.
Over the past year, groups like Paid Leave for the U.S., Paid Leave for All, the National Partnership for Women and Families, A Better Balance and their partners took that to heart, spending considerable time and money to sway Manchin in hopes of enacting the nation’s first paid leave policy.
Day herself buttonholed Manchin on the Amtrak train to New York from Washington, D.C., last week, when she spotted him and his wife sitting a couple rows ahead.
“I went and introduced myself, and I talked to him personally at length for more than 10 minutes about paid leave,” Day said. “He was very cordial.”
Manchin shared his concerns about how a paid leave program would impact small businesses, she said, and how “we just can’t be spending so much money." Day shared her personal experience watching two parents cope with cancer without paid leave, which she said he was "compelled by."
Another time, two advocates said, a board member took up the cause with Manchin while dining on his houseboat, where he lives when he’s in Washington
Manchin upends paid leave, a benefit ‘personal to the president’
"We kept hearing, 'You have a Manchin problem,'" Molly Day, executive director of Paid Leave for the U.S., said. "So we kept digging in."
www.politico.com
excerpts:
Though polls show paid family leave has strong support among Democrats and Republicans, and many business groups have warmed to the idea, even it couldn't make the cut as Democratic leaders scrambled to lower the spending bill's cost at Manchin's insistence. The other moderate they have had to appease, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), wasn't opposed to including paid leave.
The White House had told advocates repeatedly that paid leave wouldn’t stand a chance at inclusion in Democrats’ reconciliation bill if they didn’t lobby Manchin hard enough, more than half a dozen sources said.
Over the past year, groups like Paid Leave for the U.S., Paid Leave for All, the National Partnership for Women and Families, A Better Balance and their partners took that to heart, spending considerable time and money to sway Manchin in hopes of enacting the nation’s first paid leave policy.
Day herself buttonholed Manchin on the Amtrak train to New York from Washington, D.C., last week, when she spotted him and his wife sitting a couple rows ahead.
“I went and introduced myself, and I talked to him personally at length for more than 10 minutes about paid leave,” Day said. “He was very cordial.”
Manchin shared his concerns about how a paid leave program would impact small businesses, she said, and how “we just can’t be spending so much money." Day shared her personal experience watching two parents cope with cancer without paid leave, which she said he was "compelled by."
Another time, two advocates said, a board member took up the cause with Manchin while dining on his houseboat, where he lives when he’s in Washington
