Will Parliamentarian MacDonough release a detailed explanation of why she tossed the wage increase?

[Celerity]

I really would like to know how drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was considered to be consistent with the Byrd Rule, while increasing the minimum wage is not, especially as the Dems showed billions of dollars in budgetary impact from the raise.

So unhappy that an unelected power centre, utterly obscure to most all of the 331 million people in the US, has put the old bovver boots to us, not to mention almost 30 million working poor.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. A quick Google search is telling me that the ANWR drilling DID violate the Byrd Rule

There may be more to the story, but that's what I'm seeing in headlines...

[Celerity]

2. here

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d182d2e8-903b-4905-b119-11a816148815

For example, in 2017, the Republicans’ tax bill included a provision opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The CBO wrote that “opening ANWR to development would: Yield about $5 billion in additional receipts over the next 10 years … [and] increase royalties by roughly $2 billion to $4 billion during the 2023-2035 period.” Therefore, although it yielded a much smaller budgetary impact, the provision remained.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. But also here...

https://www.alaskawild.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Arctic-Refuge-Byrd-Rule-Statement-FINAL-11-29-2017.pdf

Edit: I'm not trying to be argumentative - I'm genuinely confused because I've heard that talking point a lot, and I wanted to see when. That's when I saw the stuff about it being removed.

[Celerity]

4. yes, but it was amended, re-introduced, and was included, as I showed

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. ALright - I saw reporting on it being removed, apparently it was added to much less fanfare

Which is not really surprising...

[Celerity]

6. Any thoughts on the question I asked with my OP? TIA

[Celerity]

8. Arctic Refuge drilling controversy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Refuge_drilling_controversy

The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since 1977. As of 2017, Republicans have attempted to allow drilling in ANWR almost fifty times, finally being successful with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

America's last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/15/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-oil-drilling-highest-bidder

Ten thousand years of undisturbed nature will soon be open to the highest bidder, starting at $25 an acre

[mvd]

7. So far all I have seen is that it put a mandate on corporations

She didn’t like that. That would be the most annoying and outrageous explanation possible.

[Celerity]

9. thanks for the reply and yes, not a good reason if that was the primary driver

[MichMan]

10. Reminds me of when the Student Loan reform was included with the ACA

It could be included as part of the ACA under reconciliation because the government could count all the interest income as budgetary to offset the costs of health care.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Time for a new parliamentarian. The Senate is anti-democracy enough as it is.