<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11930701" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kyrsten-sinema" source="Orion">Kyrsten Sinema</keyword>'s campaign has received $500,000+ in campaign donations from the pharma industry.</li><li>The $3.5 trillion spending bill would save the US "hundreds of billions" on health care spending.</li><li>The biotechnology company Amgen gave Sinema $25,500 and is one of her largest financial backers.</li></ul>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is said to be opposed to the current prescription drug pricing proposals in bills put forth by both the House and Senate, as well as an alternative from House centrists that would limit the drugs subject to Medicare negotiation, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/kyrsten-sinema-biden-drug-pricing-prescription-plan-512907">according to unnamed sources cited by Politico</a>.Sinema's stance has stalled the passage of the $3.5 trillion spending bill crafted by the <keyword id="60973" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="biden" source="Orion">Biden</keyword> administration and fellow Democrats, even though it could jeopardize her own bipartisan <keyword id="12025847" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="infrastructure-bill" source="Orion">infrastructure bill</keyword>. Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington has previously said the majority of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which she chairs, would not vote for Sinema's infrastructure bill without first passing the spending package.If passed, the $3.5 trillion spending bill would lower the cost of certain prescription drugs by instituting reforms and allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, which would save the federal government "hundreds of billions" on health care spending, according to a <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MEMORANDUM%20for%20Democratic%20Senators%20-%20FY2022%20Budget%20Resolution.pdf">memo for Democratic senators</a>.<h2>Sinema is a "pharma favorite in Congress" </h2>Since launching her political career, Sinema's campaign committee has received more than $500,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and health product industries, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kyrsten-sinema/industries?cid=N00033983&amp;cycle=CAREER&amp;type=Ip;type=I">according to OpenSecrets</a>.<a href="https://khn.org/news/a-senator-from-arizona-emerges-as-a-pharma-favorite/">Kaiser Health News</a> dubbed Sinema a "pharma favorite in Congress" after her campaign received $98,500 from PACs run by employees of drug companies and their trade groups during the 2019-20 election cycle.One of her <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kyrsten-sinema/contributors?cid=N00033983&amp;cycle=2022&amp;type=Ip;type=I">largest financial backers</a> has been Amgen, a biotechnology company that manufactures prescription drugs for individuals with illnesses that have limited treatment options, such as cancer patients and chronically ill individuals.Insider reached out to Sinema and her team but has not received a response.Many prescription drugs made by Amgen have hefty price tags. Overall, the company made $24.24 billion in global product sales in 2020.Amgen did not respond to inquiries about whether it lobbied Sinema on prescription drug pricing reforms or how the bill's passage would impact the company's bottom line. In 2021, Amgen has spent $4.72 million on lobbying Congressional representatives over 17 bills, the majority of which address issues related to prescription drug pricing, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/bills?cycle=2021&amp;id=D0000003910391">according to OpenSecrets</a>.<h2>A super PAC with pharmaceutical industry ties funded a recent Sinema ad</h2><a href="https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/advertiser/AR140998381848756224/creative/CR198367737490178048">According to Google's Transparency Report</a>, a September 9 political ad for Sinema was paid for by Center Forward, a super PAC dedicated to supporting the election of centrist Democrats, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/blue-dog-democrats-whittled-down-in-number-are-trying-to-regroup/2014/01/15/37d4e7e2-7dfd-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html">according to The Washington Post</a>. In its registration with the Washington, DC, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Center Forward lists Libby Greer and Cindy Brown from the lobbying firm Forbes Tate Partners as governors on its board. Greer and Brown are lobbyists for several pharmaceutical companies, including <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/16746300-916d-4c6d-9c22-0551885abdf0/print/">Bayer</a>, <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/65eda5b8-f28a-442f-8b9a-a6b85268a3c4/print/">Gilead Sciences</a>, <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/f780e4f3-540e-4001-ba97-5f11516ffdb9/print/">Eli Lilly</a>, <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/4a13743e-d38a-4a7b-abfe-0a4c939d73cb/print/">Novartis</a>, <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/16746300-916d-4c6d-9c22-0551885abdf0/print/">Amgen</a>, and <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/776eae36-0434-4205-980b-9a3259a23910/print/">Merck &amp; Co</a>, according to documents obtained by <a href="https://www.dailyposter.com/sinema-threat-followed-boost-from-pharma-group/">the Daily Poster</a> and reviewed by Insider. Greer and Brown did not respond to inquiries about the scope of their involvement in the Sinema political ads. Center Forward Executive Director Cori Kramer Smith said that day-to-day activities, programming, and messaging do not fall under the board's responsibilities.Merck was the second-highest pharmaceutical industry contributor to Sinema's campaign, donating $20,500 to her campaign committee and leadership PAC between 2015 and 2020, according to Kaiser Health News' <a href="https://khn.org/news/campaign/">"Pharma Cash to Congress" tracker</a>.Eli Joseph, the husband of Sinema's chief of staff, Meg Joseph, worked as the executive director of federal policy and government relations for Merck &amp; Co. from 2012-2015, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-joseph-a9151754/">according to his LinkedIn</a>. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-joseph-312808b8/">Meg Joseph's LinkedIn</a> also shows that she worked as a lobbyist from 2007-2008 at <a href="https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/search/?registrant=&amp;registrant_country=&amp;registrant_ppb_country=&amp;client=&amp;client_state=&amp;client_country=&amp;client_ppb_country=&amp;lobbyist=Margaret+Joseph&amp;lobbyist_covered_position=&amp;lobbyist_conviction_disclosure=&amp;lobbyist_conviction_date_range_from=&amp;lobbyist_conviction_date_range_to=&amp;report_period=&amp;report_year=&amp;report_dt_posted_from=&amp;report_dt_posted_to=&amp;report_amount_reported_min=&amp;report_amount_reported_max=&amp;report_issue_area_description=&amp;affiliated_organization=&amp;affiliated_organization_country=&amp;foreign_entity=&amp;foreign_entity_country=&amp;foreign_entity_ppb_country=&amp;foreign_entity_ownership_percentage_min=&amp;foreign_entity_ownership_percentage_max=&amp;search=search#js_searchFormTitleership_percentage_min=&amp;foreign_entity_ownership_percentage_max=&amp;search=search#js_searchFormTitle">Clark &amp; Weinstock</a>, which lobbied on behalf of <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/lobbyists?cycle=2007&amp;id=D0000224612461">several pharmaceutical companies</a> and major industry trade groups during her tenure, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/big-pharma-firms-donated-750k-to-kyrsten-sinema--then-she-opposed-bill/">Salon reported</a>. Neither of the Josephs responded to inquiries about their previous work as lobbyists or connections to the pharmaceutical industry. Merck spokesperson John Cummins said Eli Joseph handled Senate affairs and was not involved in decisions surrounding House contributions. In addition to Sinema, four House Democrats are also opposed to direct government negotiation of drug prices. Reps. Scott Peters, Kurt Schrader, Stephanie Murphy, and Kathleen Rice voted against advancing a drug-pricing provision on September 15, although it would be approved later in the day by the Ways and Means Committee, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-15/democrats-struggle-for-consensus-on-prescription-drugs-medicare-and-aca">the Los Angeles Times reported</a>.

Kyrsten Sinema takes thousands in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical giants while stalling prescription drug pricing reforms

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">ClubhouseClubhouse co-founders CEO Kurt Schrader and chief design officer Andrew Childs</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Clubhouse, which was founded in 2014 and creates project management platforms for software teams, is announcing an <keyword id="6356323" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="enterprise">enterprise</keyword> edition.</li><li>Clubhouse originally only targeted small teams, but with the enterprise edition, it can support larger teams as well.</li><li>Clubhouse's sees its biggest competitor as Atlassian's Jira, which is widely used by large software development teams, and the company hopes that the users will turn to Clubhouse as another option.</li></ul>When co-founder and CEO Kurt Schrader founded Clubhouse, he felt that developers needed a better tool to organize their work. Now, his startup is scaling to work with enterprise companies in an effort to better compete with the likes of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/3-billion-atlassian-thinks-business-software-can-be-as-big-as-snapchat-2015-11">Atlassian's Jira</a>."One of our biggest challenges is we're kind of a David going against a Goliath," Schrader told Business Insider.Clubhouse launched its standard project management software in 2016, partly as a response <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-jira-splits-core-jira-service-desk-jessica-alba-2015-10">Jira</a>, Atlassian's flagship software development project management platform. It started out targeting small teams, and on Tuesday, Clubhouse announced it would scale up to larger organizations with Clubhouse Enterprise Edition.The four-year-old Clubhouse, which has <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clubhouse-software#section-overview">$16 million in funding</a>, is currently used by more than 1,000 organizations, including Elastic, FullStory, Glossier, HireVue, and LaunchDarkly. "Even as we build and add more features, we still keep simplicity front and center to ensure the tool is intuitive," Mitch Wainer, CMO of Clubhouse, told Business Insider. "What's unique about Clubhouse, and why I joined, is I felt the pain of using complex tools like Jira."Before <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-is-blowing-up-jira-to-evolve-with-modern-software-developers-2018-10">its recent overhaul</a>, Jira had a reputation for being clunky and having an outdated interface. And with other project management platforms, users typically have to use multiple tools or project views, making the process more complicated. On the other hand, Clubhouse has always focused on simplicity, Wainer says."Teams were unable to use Jira effectively," Wainer said. "What happened is there was a fragmented world of collaboration."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/atlassians-stock-dropped-but-wall-streeters-still-see-a-bright-future-2018-10">Atlassian</a> has since responded to user concerns and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-is-blowing-up-jira-to-evolve-with-modern-software-developers-2018-10">completely redesigned</a> the platform to fit with the needs of today's agile teams. "It's definitely interesting that they recognized the flaws with what they built," Schrader said.But what makes Clubhouse different, Schrader says, is that the platform works especially well for small teams and can scale up as companies grow. Before, Clubhouse was only targeted at small teams, but once those teams grew bigger, they usually turned to Jira. Schrader hopes that the new enterprise edition will change this course."I think for us, it's figuring out how to change the conversation," Schrader said. "When a lot of organizations grow, they say we should use Jira now because it's our only option. We're changing that conversation." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/valentina-tereshkova-first-woman-space-travel-russia-2015-11">The first woman in space almost didn't make it back to Earth and she had to keep it a secret for 30 years</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

This startup is scaling up its software to compete with Atlassian's renowned product

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="212097" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="AOC">AOC</keyword> and House progressives called out their moderate Democratic colleagues for their "concerns" over the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill.</li><li>The moderate lawmakers want a standalone vote for the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.</li><li>Speaker Pelosi has committed to bringing up both infrastructure bills at the same time.</li></ul>Rep. <keyword id="7018494" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</keyword> and progressive <keyword id="499274" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="House-Democrats">House Democrats</keyword> on Sunday pushed back against "concerns" raised by their moderate colleagues over the proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders want to pass in conjunction with a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill.In a letter addressed to House Speaker <keyword id="128640" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Nancy-Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</keyword>, a group of six <keyword id="2391051" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="moderates">moderates</keyword> called on the California Democrat to bring the bipartisan package, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-mcconnell-republicans-key-vote-2021-8">which is on the cusp of passage</a> in the Senate, up for a standalone vote, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566882-moderate-democrats-push-for-standalone-infrastructure-vote">according to The Hill</a>.The moderates also expressed reservations about the $3.5 trillion "human infrastructure" bill, which would fund priorities focused on childcare, clean energy, and higher education, among other measures."As soon as the Senate completes its work, we must bring this bipartisan infrastructure bill to the House floor for a standalone vote. This once-in-a-century investment deserves its own consideration, without regard to other legislation," the letter read. "Separately, as we begin the reconciliation process, we have concerns about the specific components of that potential package."While the bipartisan bill on Saturday passed 67-27 and attracted the support of 18 Senate Republicans <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-biden-infrastructure-bill-closer-to-final-passage-2021-8">in advancing the legislation</a>, the larger infrastructure package would be passed through reconciliation, which only requires a simple majority and can skirt filibuster rules that mandate a 60-vote threshold to cut off debate.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-white-house-staff-aides-guide-2021-1">The ultimate guide to 600+ members of Joe Biden's White House staff and who makes six figures</a>The members urging caution include Democratic Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela of Texas, and Ed Case of Hawaii, The Hill reported, citing a source with knowledge of the matter.Several progressives, led by Ocasio-Cortez, a two-term Democratic lawmaker from New York, responded to their moderate colleagues on Sunday with a sharply different message."If mods want to blow up the infra deal, that's on them," <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1424193132518850565">Ocasio-Cortez tweeted</a>. "I know this is tough for some to understand, but the US is more than a handful of suburbs - communities outside them aren't disposable. And just bc something is 'bipartisan' doesn't mean it's good. Look at Wall St bailouts."The lawmaker pointed to "war," "tax cuts for the rich," "Wall St bailouts," and "fossil fuel giveaways" as examples of "bipartisan" moves."Just because something is 'bipartisan' doesn't make it intrinsically good for people or worthy of passage," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Substance matters."Freshman Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York retweeted the letter on Twitter and <a href="https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1424166747058343936">added a clear response</a>: "No."<a href="https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1424191098390450176">In another tweet</a>, Jones emphasized the significance of passing the larger infrastructure package."Wondering how many Americans will know which infrastructure bill was 'bipartisan' versus the number who will know whether Medicare was expanded, child care became affordable, and the planet was saved," he wrote.Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona was just as forceful, saying there would be "no deal" without both infrastructure bills being considered at the same time."Both move together or nothing moves," <a href="https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1424315226065936384">he tweeted on Saturday</a>.Progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota also <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1424193800243658752">chimed in</a> on the debate, emphasizing that "it's time to act.""Reconciliation bill needs to be tied to the infrastructure bill if moderates are serious about passing the bill," she tweeted. "If they want to tank the Democratic agenda it's on them. Dems across the country want investments in the care <keyword id="34412" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="economy">economy</keyword> &amp; campaign promises fulfilled. It's time to act."She added: "People voted for Dems to legislate and not defer to republicans. Bipartisan legislation doesn't provide the investments promised by the administration and Democrats in Congress. <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell">@LeaderMcConnell</a> is an obstructionist and Dems need to #safeguard themselves from his influence."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Finfrastructure-bill-now-faces-restive-house-progressives-11627662157">Pelosi has maintained</a> that she won't bring up the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the House unless the larger reconciliation package has also passed, and <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/8621-1">she maintained that stance</a> during a Friday press conference."Whatever you can achieve in a bipartisan way, bravo," she said. "We salute it. We applaud it. We hope that it will pass soon. But, at the same time, we're not going forward with leaving people behind."

AOC, progressive lawmakers call out moderate House Democrats over 'concerns' about $3.5 trillion reconciliation package

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesNJ Sen. Cory Booker</div></div></div><ul><li>Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sheryl Sandberg have donated to some of the lawmakers questioning Zuckerberg during his <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-us-congress-cambridge-analytica-russia-bias-2018-4">Congressional testimony this week</a>.</li><li>Facebook has given the most to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).</li></ul>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have a strong presence in Washington - but he, Sheryl Sandberg, and Facebook Inc have donated tens of thousands of dollars to several of the same lawmakers that questioned him this week in high-profile Congressional hearings. Congress grilled Zuckerberg over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in which the personal data of 87 million users was obtained by the Trump-linked political research firm Cambridge Analytica. In his first day of testimony, Zuckerberg also answered questions about the spread of fake news, Russian manipulation of the social network, and free speech.Since 2014, Facebook has donated a total of $1.8 million to members of Congress, according to data from the Center for Responsive <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">Politics</keyword>. And personally, Zuckerberg has given to two of the senators - both in 2013 - who questioned him yesterday: $5,200 to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and $7,800 to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Oprah.comFlashback to 2010 when Zuckerberg and Sen. Booker appeared on the Oprah show</div></div></div>Zuckerberg and Sen. Booker have some history. In 2010, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-donation/facebooks-zuckerberg-gives-100-million-to-newark-idUSTRE68N54E20100924">Zuckerberg appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television show </a>with then Newark, NJ Mayor Booker and then NJ Gov. Chris Christie to announce a $100 million gift to "fix" New Jersey's school system with charter schools and other reforms (the initiative has since been <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/we-now-know-more-about-how-newark-schools-partially-squandered-mark-zuckerburgs-100-million-donation-2015-10">criticized for being a well-intentioned but poorly conceived plan </a>that caused a lot of upheaval to local residents and students).Sheryl Sandberg, Zuckerberg's second-in-command, has donated to the following legislators during their time in office:<ul><li>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) - $7,900</li><li>Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) - $5,400</li><li>Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) - $2,700</li><li> Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) - $17,700</li><li> Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) - $7,900</li><li> Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) - $5,200</li><li> Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) - $5,200</li></ul>It's not unusual for corporations to donate to politicians on both sides of the aisle, of course. But it's worth keeping this financial relationship in mind while watching Zuckerberg's exchanges with lawmakers. Here is a list of every lawmaker on the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that Facebook has contributed to in the past four years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.<ul><li>Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) - $44,025</li><li>Kamala D Harris (D-CA) - $30,990</li><li>Greg Walden (R-OR) - $20,000</li><li>Steve Scalise (R-LA) - $19,500</li><li>Patrick Leahy (D-VT) - $16,400</li><li>Cory Gardner (R-CO) - $16,000</li><li>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) - $15,900</li><li>Orrin G Hatch (R-UT) - $15,200</li><li>Dean Heller (R-NV) - $14,400</li><li>Roy Blunt (R-MO) - $14,100</li><li>Fred Upton (R-MI) - $14,000</li><li>John M Shimkus (R-IL) - $14,000</li><li>Mike Lee (R-UT) - $13,500</li><li>Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) - $13,200</li><li>Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) - $11,000</li><li>John Thune (R-SD) - $10,000</li><li>Bill Nelson (D-FL) - $10,000</li><li>Jon Tester (D-MT) - $10,000</li><li>Deb Fischer (R-NE) - $10,000</li><li>Roger Wicker (R-MS) - $10,000</li><li>John Cornyn (R-TX) - $10,000</li><li>Maria Cantwell (D) - $9,100</li><li>Diana DeGette (D-CO) - $9,000</li><li>Brett Guthrie (R-KY) - $9,000</li><li>Peter Welch (D-VT) - $8,500</li><li>Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) -$8,500</li><li>Doris O Matsui (D-CA) - $8,000</li><li>Jeff Flake (R-AZ) - $7,500</li><li>Jerry Moran (R-KS) - $7,500</li><li>Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) - $7,500</li><li>Mimi Walters (R-CA) - $7,500</li><li>Thom Tillis (R-NC) - $7,500</li><li>Chris Coons (D-DE) - $7,500</li><li>Pete Olsen (R-TX) - $6,500</li><li>Michael Burgess (R-TX) - $6,000</li><li>Frank Pallone (D-NJ) - $6,000</li><li>Ben Lujan (D-NM) - $6,000</li><li>Ron Johnson (R-WI) - $6,000</li><li>G K Butterfield (D-NC) - $5,500</li><li>Gary Peters (D-MI) - $5,000</li><li>Ben Sasse (R-NE) - $5,000</li><li>Robert E Latta (R-OH) - $5,000</li><li>Chuck Grassley (R-IA) - $5,000</li><li>Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) - $4,500</li><li>Yvette D Clarke (D-NY) - $4,000</li><li>Tony Cárdenas (D-CA)- $4,000</li><li>Richard Hudson (R-NC) - $4,000</li><li>Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) - $4,000</li><li>Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) - $3,900</li><li>Raul Ruiz (D-CA) - $3,750</li><li>Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) - $3,535</li><li>Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - $3,500</li><li>Kevin Cramer (R-ND) - $3,000</li><li>Bill Johnson (R-OH) - $3,000</li><li>Jerry Mcnerney (D-CA) - $3,000</li><li>Kurt Schrader (D-OR) - $3,000</li><li>Bobby L Rush (D-IL) -$3,000</li><li>Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) - $3,000</li><li>Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) - $3,000</li><li>Ryan Costello (R-PA) - $2,750</li><li>Dan Sullivan (R-AL) - $2,500</li><li>Mike Crapo (R-ID)- $2,500</li><li>Todd Young (R-IN) - $2,500</li><li>Chris Collins (R-NY) - $2,500</li><li>Scott Peters (D-CA) - $2,500</li><li>Brooks, Susan (R-IN) - $2,000 </li><li>Bucshon, Larry (R-IN) - $2,000</li><li>Mike Doyle (D-PA) - $2,000</li><li>Morgan Griffith (R-VA) - $2,000</li><li>Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) - $2,000</li><li>Mullin, Markwayne (R-OK) - $1,500</li><li>Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) - $1,000</li><li>Bilirakis, Gus (R-FL) -$1,000 </li><li>Carter, Buddy (R-GA) -$1,000</li><li>Dingell, Debbie (D-MI) -$1,000</li><li>Duncan, Jeff (R-SC) - $1,000</li><li>Flores, Bill (R-TX) - $1,000</li><li>Green, Gene (D-TX) -$1,000</li><li>Harper, Gregg (R-MS) - $1,000 </li><li>Sarbanes, John (D-MD) - $1,000</li></ul> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/top-10-games-coming-2018-nintendo-playstation-xbox-sony-call-of-duty-2018-3">The top 10 games coming in 2018</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Win McNamee/Getty ImagesDonald Trump.</div></div></div>Over the past seven days, it seems as if President Donald Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/schumer-trump-relationship-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">can't get enough of bipartisanship</a>.Since he sided with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on a deal to tack <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-debt-ceiling-harvey-aid-deal-2017-9">on a three-month suspension</a> of the federal debt ceiling - and a continuing resolution to fund the government through early December - to a bill that would also include money for Hurricane Harvey relief, Trump has been repeating the "b" word over and over while making more overtures to Democrats than he had throughout his young presidency.Within the past 24 hours, Trump has hosted a dinner with a bipartisan group of senators that included Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana; met with a bipartisan group of congressmen that included Democrats Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Stephanie Murphy of Florida, Collin Peterson of Minnesota, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Tom Suozzi of New York, and Peter Welch of Vermont; and invited both Schumer and Pelosi back to the White House for a Wednesday-night dinner.After being asked by a reporter on Wednesday what his message is for conservatives who are "skeptical of this new approach with Democrats," Trump suggested that some of the "greatest legislation in history" was passed in a bipartisan manner."Well, I'm conservative and, I will tell you, I'm not skeptical," Trump said. "And I think that if we can do things in a bipartisan manner, that will be great. Now, it might not work out, in which case, we'll try and do them without. But I think if we can do, in a bipartisan manner - if you look at some of the greatest legislation ever passed, it was done on a bipartisan manner. And so that's why we're going to give it a shot."The president, eager to pass his big-ticket agenda items such as tax reform and an infrastructure package, seems to have reacted well to positive news coverage that came out of his deal with Schumer and Pelosi last week, and is now attempting to carry over any momentum built by the deal. In the deal's immediate aftermath, Trump spoke in glowing terms about both it and his partners in the agreement, "Chuck" and "Nancy." He told reporters he thought "you are going to see a much stronger coming together" and <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/trump-calls-nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-news-coverage-242441">that the deal signaled</a> more bipartisan action on the horizon."I think we will have a different relationship than we've been watching over the last number of years," Trump said. "I hope so. I think that's what the people of the United States want to see. They want to see some dialogue."<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/schumer-trump-relationship-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Now just a week after Trump's deal with Schumer and Pelosi</a> - after going months without any sort of meeting - Trump already invited both of them back to the White House to follow up on last week's meeting, as a source familiar with the meeting described it to Business Insider. That source added that Schumer and Pelosi plan to push Trump on codifying protections for some immigrants living in the country illegally and stabilizing healthcare markets."As we've said many times before, we've got a very ambitious legislative agenda for this fall, and the president wants to work with anybody that wants to move America forward," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at Wednesday's press briefing. "And if they're willing to do that - sit down, be part of that conversation on both tax cuts and tax reform, responsible immigration reform - then the President certainly welcomes those conversations."Asked whether the president views Schumer and Pelosi as "equal allies" for accomplishing his goals, on par with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sanders confirmed that "the president is a Republican.""And certainly I think ideologically that's a much cleaner matchup," she said. "But again, if these people and these individuals, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, want to come together to push the president's agenda and the agenda that clearly the American people want to see, or they wouldn't have elected Donald Trump, then we're certainly happy to have that conversation and move that ball forward."Speaking to reporters at his meeting with representatives from both parties Wednesday, Trump said both sides are "more and more ... trying to work things out together.""That's a positive thing, and it's good for the Republicans and good for the Democrats," he said. "And this group knows that very well. Whether we can do the incredible things that we're doing - and working in a bipartisan fashion, obviously, would be a positive.""I think it's really - the whole concept of what we're trying to do is very, very important," he continued. "Inspired by the example of our own citizens, we should be able to come together to make government work for the people - that's why I was elected, that's why I ran - and to provide jobs and opportunities to millions of struggling families. This includes tax reform that is pro-jobs, pro-growth, pro-family, and pro-American. It's very simple. It's all pro-American."Switching to discussing tax reform, Trump called for making the tax code "simple and fair" in addition to providing a significant cut, later telling reporters that "the rich will not be gaining at all with this plan," something Democrats are insisting on in order to come to the table and deal on tax legislation."I think the wealthy will be pretty much where they are - pretty much where they are," he said. "If we can do that, we'd like it. If they have to go higher, they'll go higher, frankly. We're looking at the middle class and we're looking at jobs."He also called for an infrastructure package as "another bipartisan project that is urgently needed" and brought up DACA - the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order that Trump announced last week he would end in six months - a subject Schumer and Pelosi will push at their Wednesday dinner.Trump said "we'll probably also be talking about DACA" at his meeting with bipartisan representatives "because we don't want to forget DACA.""And it's already been a week and a half, and people don't talk about it as much," he said. "We want to see if we can do something with regard to immigration, with regard to the 800,000 people that are now young people. They're not children anymore. They were children, now they're young people. But we want to see if we can do something in a bipartisan fashion so that we can solve the DACA problem and other immigration problems."Suggesting that the differences between Republicans and Democrats are "little," Trump called for putting those differences "aside.""When we set aside our differences - and it's amazing how sometimes how little our differences are - we put our country and we put the citizens of our country first," Trump said. "And that's what this is all about." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-building-bridge-to-crimea-2017-8">Putin's controversial bridge to connect Russia to annexed Crimea will be the longest in Russian history</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Trump is cozying up to Democrats after his surprise deal with Pelosi and Schumer

In a rebuke to President Barack Obama and his threat of veto, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/house-obamacare-bill-vote-keep-your-plan-fred-upton-2013-11" target="_blank">39 House Democrats earlier Friday voted for GOP-sponsored legislation</a> that would allow insurers to keep offering health plans even if they do not meet certain minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
It wasn't as many as Democratic aides had privately feared earlier this week, but the defections are a significant jump from a Democratic caucus that, for the most part, has stood unified on the 40-plus House GOP attempts to repeal or alter the law. Before Friday, the largest number of <keyword id="6534156" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Democrats">Democrats</keyword> that had voted against the law was 35, on a July bill to delay <keyword id="6579869" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="ObamaCare">Obamacare</keyword>'s employer mandate. 
What do the 39 Democrats have in common? Most are in competitive districts in next year's midterm election, and all are being targeted by the campaign arm of Republicans for their support of Obamacare at a time when it is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-enrollment-numbers-healthcare-gov-october-affordable-care-act-aca-2013-11" target="_blank">becoming less and less popular and its rollout has been a disaster</a>.
"I will work with any member, Democrat or Republican, who is willing to work together to find common-sense solutions such as this to put the American people first," said Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), a freshman Democrat who is a prime target for Republicans next year. 
Murphy's praise of the law went directly against many other Democrats and the White House, who painted it as a step in Republican attempts to dismantle the law. It is understandable in light of the expected attacks against him - but it definitely does not mean that Republicans will stop targeting him. 
<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/hotline-on-call/most-vulnerable-house-democrats-side-with-gop-on-obamacare-vote-20131115" target="_blank">The National Journal's Scott Bland has</a> some good data profiling the Democrats who voted in favor of Rep. Fred Upton's (R-Mich.) bill on Friday:
<ul>
<li>Eight of nine Democrats who hail from districts won by Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election voted for the bill. </li>
<li>Only two Democrats who come from districts in which Obama won less than 53% of the vote last year voted "no" on the bill. </li>
<li>28 of 36 Democrats who come from districts in which Obama won less than 55% of the vote voted in favor of the bill. </li>
</ul>
Here's the full list of Democratic defectors:
<ul>
<li>Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.)</li>
<li>Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.)</li>
<li>Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.)</li>
<li>Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa)</li>
<li>Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.)</li>
<li>Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.)</li>
<li>Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.)</li>
<li>Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.)</li>
<li>Rep. Bill Enyart (D-Ill.)</li>
<li>Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.)</li>
<li>Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.)</li>
<li>Rep. Pete Gallego (D-Texas)</li>
<li>Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.)</li>
<li>Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.)</li>
<li>Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-N.H.)</li>
<li>Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa)</li>
<li>Rep. Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.)</li>
<li>Rep. Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.)</li>
<li>Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah)</li>
<li>Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.)</li>
<li>Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.)</li>
<li>Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.)</li>
<li>Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.)</li>
<li>Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.)</li>
<li>Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)</li>
<li>Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.)</li>
<li>Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.)</li>
<li>Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.)</li>
<li>Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.)</li>
<li>Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.)</li>
<li>Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)</li>
<li>Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas)</li>
<li>Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.)</li>
</ul>

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