Q: Why not just repeal the mandate in a stand-alone bill and sort the rest out later?
Q: Why not just repeal the mandate in a stand-alone bill and sort the rest out later?
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Didn’t Trump already do that with an EO?
A: Because it would fail in the House by 400 votes.
A: Because such a bill would die in the Senate.
Now if that's what you want, ok, but realize that it might not even put senators on record as having voted for or against. Why? Because in the Senate the bill might not even make it to the floor for a vote. It might be stalled permanently due to filibusters, holds, etc.
Conservatives have got to understand that the Senate is a dysfunctional body because, somewhere along the way, their rules became so distorted that they require 60 votes for almost anything. This is most definitely a double-edged sword. It helps the minority, but in our hyper-partisan times, it also stops the duly elected majority from getting anything done.
Good idea. Get elected to Congress and make that suggestion.