“TWO WORDS: BLUE SLIP”
Yeah, the senate is just desperate for the House to act first. And Boehner and company are just stupid enough to make that happen. However, if the Senate doesn’t send the bill to the House, then a discharge petition cannot be filed.
So the game is probably a tricky game of timing. Reid will release the bill to the House at just the right moment if the House fails to pass their own bill. I’m sure they have a little playbook with every possible outcome and then an associating action, like a chess game. They’re very insidious.
Sad, but true. What a sickening milestone our nation has reached :(