From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Dessher, and this is Heritage Explains.

And this is Heritage Explains.

I'm not a huge fan of hosting parties.

However, if I set my mind to it, I've been known to throw a mean party every now and then.

Real ragers.

Now, as a host, I have control of a lot of things.

What time it starts, the food, the beverages, the entertainment, etc., etc.

But one thing that's harder to enforce is when people leave.

Even if you give an end time to the party, it's one logistic that just seems inherently flexible.

A lot of the time, guests stay too long.

Why?

It's easy to invite people to come, but it's really tough to ask them to leave.

But this isn't an episode about hosting parties.

This is an episode about an issue in D.C DC that doesn't seem to want to leave the party.

Remember H.R. 1 or S1, the so-called For the People Act? And we've done several episodes about it here on Explains, where we've talked about how if passed, this law would fundamentally change America

by letting D.C. control our elections instead of states and destroying things like donor confidentiality.

Well, since our last episode on this,

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia

actually wrote an op-ed digging his heels in

and rejected his party's bill.

Or did he? I don't give up on Joe Manchin. I read the art of the op-ed, and you read a part of it.

I think he left the door open. I think it's a jar. I'm not giving up. Well, and I wanted to ask you

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