If this amendment is added to the bill and the bill passes the Senate, we win, folks. Our boys in the House are going to take this bill DOWN. The Senate can’t include funding measures, and this will kill the bill.
Not exactly. TAX measures have to originate in the House. The Senate and House pass 13 appropriations bills each year, and have to reconcile them (in conference commitee). But money cannot be spent unless there are also bills authorizing its expenditure passed and agreed to by both houses. If this amendment is added to the bill, it does nothing because it is not an appropriations bill, but the rest of it would go into effect if it is passed by both the House and Senate. That is why it is a sucker bill. I, too, hope the House takes it down. But I would feel much better if the Senate failed to pass another cloture vote and dropped it altogether.
“and this will kill the bill.”
Don’t think so
There is a loophole
The house can sponsor its own bill and “reconcile” it with the Senate’s.