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I didn't say it would work. I said this is what the Senators are trying to do. We'll see what the final form of the bill looks like.


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Will this pass the Senate?

I doubt that it'll be successful, but I hope these House and Senate bills actually get somewhere.

No, of course it won't, you know that it won't, and your attempt to try to misrepresent the proposed bill by suggesting that it will is petty and dangerous.

I'm apprehensive Senators will kill it with some BS about how 'it doesn't go far enough' or the like.

I don't think the bill will pass in its current form. Can't see it happening.

>They should also personally attack each of the original progenators in the Senate/House of the bill.

That will never work; it was a bipartisan group. The only way things are done in American are if either a union or corporation pays for it, or if there's politician gain in attacking the other party.


Care to elaborate? Senate bills are not yet laws, FYI.

I don't think the bill needs to be changed at all to be deceptive to the public, because Congress doesn't work the way this bill suggests it does.

Yeah, sounds good to me. Maybe some AOC staffer will read this comment and put it in the next bill.

If you read the proposed bill, you will see your statement is incorrect.

It is a nice idea, but until such time as the actual text of the bill is available to be read, I'm skeptical.

I can hope, however.


Do you have a “reasonable” bill in mind? I can’t really see much of anything getting 60 votes in the senate.

> The question is whether this will ever get through the senate

“Ever” being sharply limited because the current Congress ends in a month and a day.

Also, no, it won't. Nor would it likely be signed into law even if it did.

A similar bill in the next Congress might have better prospects, maybe.


He's saying he will likely support a bipartisan effort already in Congress, so sending a new bill to Congress would be inconsistent with what he claims, and a poor basis for believing it.

>i didn't know that. what does that mean for the fate of this bill?

IIUC, for this particular bill[0], the next step in the Senate is to debate it on the floor and then vote on it.

The companion House bill[1] has been introduced, but has not gone through committee or been voted upon.

The Senate would need to pass the bill. Then, separately, the House would need to pass their bill.

Then, the House and Senate would reconcile their two bills, and the resulting compromise bill would once again need be voted upon and passed by each chamber.

Assuming that happens, the President would need to sign it before it becomes law.

Most Americans (I hope) could tell you that. The links below detail the various actions taken by each chamber, as well as the sponsors and text of the bills.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/339...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8454


Such legislation has gotten proposed in every session of Congress in recent years. It hasn’t passed yet. I hope it does, eventually.

Sadly, any senator/congressperson putting a bill like this would not hold their position after the very next election cycle. The lobbyists are too strong. However, I would vote for someone that ran on this platform.

The house passed a bill, but the senate is working on their own version. I havent looked too deeply at either proposal, I just hope it doesnt make it even worse. I am waiting till the final proposal gets voted on.

> but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills

Of course, this is a loophole big enough to sail a cruise ship through. And the Senate takes full advantage of that loophole in practice.

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