“House Republicans are focusing this week on legislation placing new restrictions on abortion, causing Senate Democrats to worry Republicans in the upper chamber will use a variety of legislative maneuvers to bring a vote to the floor.”
When did journalist start calling the Senate the “upper chamber”?
Red State Senate Democrats are being pushed to take liberal domestic positions unpopular with their constituents. Jim Webb already retired and the rest of them dread such votes.
The Senate is no longer "the upper chamber" because it now has only the most tenuous connections to the will of the states. Elected Senators are just longer-termed representatives. Until we repeal the Amendment taking the states' right to choose their Senators away, it will remain so.