US Chamber of Commerce backs Democrats threatening to derail budget resolution
Source: The Hill
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running digital ads praising nine moderate House Democrats who are urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to immediately convene a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate earlier this month.
Those Democratic lawmakers, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), have threatened to block leadership's $3.5 trillion budget resolution, which serves as a framework for the reconciliation package, until the bipartisan infrastructure bill gets a floor vote.
The Chamber and other prominent business lobbying groups support the bipartisan plan, which invests over $1 trillion in infrastructure without raising taxes on corporations, but they strongly oppose Democrats' larger reconciliation package that would be paid for with tax hikes.
Pelosi has insisted that the bipartisan bill must be coupled with a larger reconciliation package that invests in Democratic priorities such as addressing climate change and child care.
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msongs
(67,465 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)That's their entire goal. Get the Repub bill passed and signed, then jam the reconciliation bill.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)If the Speaker gets her way with one rule, if these clowns vote against the reconciliation bill, they'll also be voting against the 'bipartisan' bill.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)Going to come from the Senate to the House as the bipartisan deal did ? In which case, Gottheimer and the others are full of wind. If anything, now they've shown their hand.
BumRushDaShow
(129,789 posts)is that since both chambers usually do markups of the specifics in their own committees, each chamber usually comes up with their own "version" that eventually goes through a Joint Committee to reconcile them to create a single version, a process that might include parts or a whole of one that would become an "amendment as a substitute" to the other.
For whatever is put together, it has to be done on some House-originated bill though (whether it be one directly related or perhaps one that already contains elements of what is wanted and then the Senate's piece gets added onto that and voted on), due to money bills being constitutionally required to "originate" in the House.
This drama is all to force the Senate to act before the opportunity slips away. As it is, the final sign off on any reconciliation legislation must wait until the new fiscal year, after September 30.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)3.5 BN then the main way they could block it is if some of those 9 were on the committees ? At least Nancy is well able for these guys !
questionseverything
(9,665 posts)In the reconciliation bill there is lots of stuff that will change lives all paid for with taxes on the ultra rich
The infrastructure bill basically uses public money to research and develop stuff (like batteries) that private companies will use to make money
Or put in cable lines that Comcast will charge an arm and a leg for
Hold the line speaker!
Lasher
(27,643 posts)But I think they've got this one right.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)to insist that the 'bipartisan' corporate Repub bill be passed and signed into law FIRST, and that is to then BLOCK the 'for the people' reconciliation bill.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nine Dem members of the House, and at least two Dem Senators, are all against raising taxes on the Rich & Corporate. They won't admit that, because raising taxes on the Rich & Corporate, who are woefully undertaxed and not paying their fair share, is wildly popular with the American people. Instead, they talk about how large the bill will be, nevermind it's paid for, while the bill they support is not paid for.
Pas-de-Calais
(9,911 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)for the children.. always!