After high-profile failures early in the year, Senate Democrats were able to deliver on major elements of President Joe Biden‘s agenda, racking up a series of legislative wins in 2022.

Two centrist Democrats — Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), who went on to become an independent — stood in the way of the party passing Biden’s Build Back Better. They also stymied calls to eliminate the filibuster, which in effect creates a 60-vote threshold for bills to pass in the upper chamber. In a 50-50 Senate, that proved fatal for the party’s more ambitious legislation.
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