Enactment is not until the final agreement has been published for 60 days. And, then, only if Congress, having heard the reactions to the final agreement, votes to enact.
IOW, Cruz and the rest have voted to let Obama negotiate an agreement, subject to lengthy guidelines, in the hopes that he will somehow rise above being Obama and produce an agreement worthy of enactment. If not, then not!
The upside exceeds the downside.
What you describe with the 60 day published period and congress voting to enact sounds somewhat reasonable. But the devil is in the details.
Just recently, I heard on the radio or read that the action by Congress following the 60 publish period is not a binding action on the President, but more like a resolution or statement. Do I have a way to verify this? Does anyone else have a way to verify to the contrary?
That’s what is so troubling about this process. Legislation locked up in the basement somewhere in a place a Senator is allowed to “go read” but not allowed to get a copy. It stinks, frankly. There’s a simple way to clear it all up. Publish it in its proposed entirety, and not just some early version without all the points that really matter.
That’s all I’m looking for. It was all anybody really wanted with ACA. But we never got it, and we are relegated to continual bad news about what Obama has decided on how we get our healthcare.