Posted on 09/29/2021 9:00:34 PM PDT by CaptainK
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough denied a bid by Democrats Wednesday to make language giving millions of immigrants legal status part of the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill — dealing a second blow to the party’s efforts to expand the scope of the already massive proposal.
Democrats are hoping to pass the plan through reconciliation, meaning it only requires 51 Senate votes rather than the usual 60. However, Senate rules call for such bills to be focused on the federal budget — as well as for the removal of provisions deemed “merely incidental” to government spending.
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Does the US Senate parliamentarian get secret service protection? This is going to drive the Democrat stormtrooper wing insane
An act of sanity in in the swamp.
She is a hero.
Hope you are in good health with a strong heart.
There were 2 acts of sanity in the Swamp today
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What’s a senate parliamentarian, something new? Is there a parliament in the senate? I’ve not heard these 2 words paired before until just this week. Newspeak? Didn’t we just use to call them senators?
The Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is the official advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation of Standing Rules of the United States Senate and parliamentary procedure.
Not new (position established in 1935) but a powerful low key position.
How long will the leftists allow this “Far right” woman to obstruct the Obama plan? (I know she’s not “far right”, but that have to tar her SOMEHOW, right?)
Spending starts in the House, that us why it was out of order, correct?
Thank you. Wonder why this role has become referred to so much lately. The name throws me - like a cook, a cooker? A cookerookerer?
MacDonough should be very wary of any invitations for a picnic at Fort Marcy Park.
“What’s a senate parliamentarian, something new? Is there a parliament in the senate? I’ve not heard these 2 words paired before until just this week. Newspeak? Didn’t we just use to call them senators?”
It’s almost a symbolic position. They can majority vote to simply ignore her. BUT...she gives cover to people who agree with here, like Manchin, and that’s where her power really derives. Manchin now can simply say that he’s following the Parliamentarian, while he continues to tell the rest of the Democrats to shove it.
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