Posted on 06/02/2021 5:01:12 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Senate parliamentarian issued a new ruling that would effectively allow Democrats to use automatic budget reconciliation just one more time this year to bypass Republicans to advance President Biden’s progressive agenda.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a revision to the 2021 budget resolution cannot be automatically discharged from the Senate Budget Committee, according to The Hill. This means that Democrats would need at least one Republican on the 11-11 panel to vote with them if they want to use reconciliation on more than one occasion before the legislative session ends in October.
The ruling, issued on Friday, effectively means that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) will only be able to use reconciliation one more time this year to pass Biden’s sweeping policies with a simple majority instead of with 60 votes required by the Senate filibuster.
The ruling means Democrats will not be able to split the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, and the president’s proposals to expand Medicare and lower the price of prescription drugs into separate reconciliation packages. Instead, it will all have to be joined into one budget reconciliation package in order to advance with a simple majority vote....
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Is Mitt or another weasel on the committee?
misleading headline.
>>Democrats would need at least one Republican on the 11-11 panel to vote with them if they want to use reconciliation on more than one occasion.
All they need is a single RINO on the budget committe and they can keep right on using reconciliation.
Don’t worry. There will be plenty of RINOs to choose from.
Mitt: Ladies, I am dispensing with manners, get outta my way or I'll flatten you both.
S. Collins and Murkowski: Manners? Try this (both punch him in the groin with elbow jabs as he goes down in agony. They step over him to get there first as traitors.
Rules? Dems don’t need no stinking rules!
“ This means that Democrats would need at least one Republican on the 11-11 panel to vote with them“
Romney is on the budget committee.
“For the People Act” of “Amnesty with full voting for ILLEGAL aliens”
Nothing else matters to the democrats. Get one of those passed and it is game over.
Plenty of Assistant Democrats to assist the Democrats.
Why? Did the fake bank finally run out of fake money tor their fake constituents?
The Stupid Party needs to hold the line on the “infrastructure” scam and zero tax increases. The Fascist Rats may not have enough time to ram thru their Green New Deal before October. I understand that reconciliation actually takes a ton of floor time because the Stupid Party as well as greedy Rats can keep offering up amendments to the reconciliation package and each amendment has to be debated and voted up or down.
They DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE RULES!!!
Been running on continuing resolutions since Usurpation Day.
They prevented Trump from doing it, they'll give it to Biden. Yet somehow people still think they are actually opposed to the democrats.
I'm positive they can find at least 1, and probably 2 to join the Democrats.
it’s a “dodge” an “excuse”. Suddenly, this “unelected” individual has the power to prevent the democrats from fulfilling their promises/lies. Evil people do evil things.
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