I just wonder if they have the votes to pull it off. Maybe they do in the Senate. Most liberal senators don't seem to like the House bill.
In the House, they are all up for reelection. I suspect even the Democrats there like this overpaid and underworked life style. I wonder if Hoyer might be telling the granny, "If we change our bill, we no longer have the votes. If we had to pass the existing bill today we no longer have the votes."
“What’s stopping them?”
I think they were stopped in August and September. Everything since then has been an act to show they are “doing the work of the American People”. The midterms are looming, every day that passes makes it less likely that it will be passed... have to find popcorn guy.
If I understand correctly, “reconciliation” can die the death of a million amendments.