"Last month House Republicans voted 217-185 to approve a measure that would keep the government open and allocate $5.7 funding for border wall construction.
The bill is now waiting a full vote in the Senate, where lawmakers are hashing it out over funding for border security.
I could be wrong but I thought a bill passed in the previous session could not be voted on by the Senate, that the new House would have to vote on that again. Maybe I'm not expressing this clearly. But iow a bill passed by the previous House session is basically dead.
Hopefully someone who knows more will correct or affirm this.
You're not wrong. That bill from the last Congress is dead.
I could be wrong but I thought a bill passed in the previous session could not be voted on by the Senate, that the new House would have to vote on that again. Maybe I’m not expressing this clearly. But iow a bill passed by the previous House session is basically dead.
Hopefully someone who knows more will correct or affirm this.
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Confirmed. Bills die when not approved before that Congress ends. However, the Senate could take that bill and introduce it as a new bill. House would have to approve it.
Turtle could have implemented the nuclear option and passed the bill back then-assuming that Pubbies would vote for it.