I just don’t get it. How can they make ANY changes? I thought they have to vote on the senate bill in the house and then vote (or skip) on the reconciliation package of spending changes. What are they doing????
Does anybody know if she has the votes or not? I hear different things everyday.
Since the House has changed the Senate bill it will GO BACK to the United States Senate where the Republicans will fillibuster it to death.
The Republicans need to cover their backsides and get the House Parliamentarian to rule that adding the Student Loan provisions changes the bill and that it must be sent back to the United States Senate for another vote.
This is a smart move on San Fran Nan’s part.
She and the Democrats in the House can pin the demise of Obamacare on those obstructionists of the Party of No: The Senate Republicans.
She gets a ‘twofer’ here: Blame the United States Senate and blame the Republican party for killing Obamacare.
Far better to make this play the endgame then to have the Senate Bill die in San Fran Nan’s House. This, of course, assumes that she can get 216 votes and the latest whip count shows she only has 189 ‘Yes’ votes and is bleeding support every day.
It’s dead Jim.