Schumer pushes to finish Build Back Better while Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema balk
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer informed Senate Democrats Monday that it’s full steam ahead on passing Build Back Better in the next two weeks. ”[O]ur goal in the Senate is to pass the legislation before Christmas and get it to the presidenSchumer pushes to finish Build Back Better while Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema balk
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer informed Senate Democrats Monday that it’s full steam ahead on passing Build Back Better in the next two weeks. ”[O]ur goal in the Senate is to pass the legislation before Christmas and get it to the president’s desk,” he wrote, then added the list of “other priorities we plan to address before the end of the year as well, including voting rights, debt limit” and the defense spending bill. Oh, and nominations. To get that done, he told his colleagues, committees are now in the process of making the technical changes needed in the House-passed version of the bill to make sure it conforms with the Senate’s special budget reconciliation rules. Eight out of 12 committees have finalized their work on the bill and submitted it to the parliamentarian, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the Senate Republicans, Schumer said, and the “committees with the two largest pieces of the bill—Finance and [Health, Education, Labor and Pensions]—are set to have their final Democratic-only briefings on Monday and Tuesday with the formal bipartisan Byrd Bath meetings to follow.” Schumer told senators that they will finalize all committee work this week and next and that there will be “ample time to review the text and CBO scores.” What he’s not saying out loud is that Christmas recess won’t be starting next Monday, as previously scheduled. Read more
