House Narrowly Passes Biden's Social Safety Net and Climate Bill
Source: NY Times
Nov. 19, 2021, 9:49 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The House on Friday narrowly passed the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, approving $2 trillion in spending over the next decade to battle climate change, expand health care and reweave the nation’s social safety net, over the unanimous opposition of Republicans.
The bill’s passage, 220 to 213, came after weeks of cajoling, arm-twisting and legislative legerdemain by Democrats. It was capped off by an exhausting, circuitous and record-breaking speech of more than eight hours by the House Republican leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, that pushed a planned Thursday vote past midnight, then delayed it to Friday morning — but did nothing to dent Democratic unity.
Groggy lawmakers reassembled at 8 a.m., three hours after Mr. McCarthy finally abandoned the floor, to begin the final series of votes to send one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in half a century to the Senate.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the final push with what she called “a courtesy to” her colleagues: “I will be brief.” She then put the House’s actions in lofty terms.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/house-passes-reconciliation-bill.html
Of course the NY Times has to put a negative spin on the vote by adding "narrowly"!
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Mega sour grapes!
I don’t care, do you?
Am sick of their negative characterizations.
instead of characterizing it? 
instead of focusing on HOW it was passed (considering the House passes many bills by all sorts of margins)?
As sports officiandos are wont to say - "A 'W' is a 'W' no matter how the team got there". The "win" is not taken away because the score was 1 point apart and happened as a "buzzer beater" with 0:00 seconds left on the clock.
The "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" was passed using reconciliation in Congress in December 2017. Here was the NYT headline (along with excerpts) for both chambers -
By Jim Tankersley and Thomas Kaplan
Oct. 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — The Republican race to overhaul the tax code broke into a sprint on Thursday, with House members narrowly clearing a budget blueprint that would allow a tax bill to pass Congress without any Democratic votes, and Senate leaders signaling that the bill could be introduced, debated and approved in both chambers by the end of November.
Those ambitions are already complicated by difficult math, both in terms of tax revenues and vote counts. The budget vote put those competing factors on display, with 20 Republicans defecting and the resolution narrowly passing, 216 to 212, in part over concerns about the possible elimination of a tax break that disproportionately benefits residents of high-tax states. A potential reduction in contribution limits for 401(k) retirement accounts also appears to be stoking an intraparty fight.
Neither the retirement issue nor the squabble over the deduction for state and local taxes was resolved on Thursday, but party leaders vowed to push ahead at an even faster pace than they had previously outlined. Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his committee would introduce a bill on Nov. 1 and begin amending it on Nov. 6.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/house-budget-blueprint-tax-cut.html
The actual House vote for the above was a NARROW 216 to 212, but that never made it into the headline.
By Thomas Kaplan and Alan Rappeport
Dec. 19, 2017
WASHINGTON — Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative victory since assuming full political control, as the House and Senate voted along party lines on Tuesday and into early Wednesday to pass the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.
The $1.5 trillion tax bill, which is expected to head to President Trump’s desk in the coming days, will have broad effects on the economy, making deep and lasting cuts to corporate taxes as well as temporarily lowering individual taxes.
The endeavor was not without hiccups, however, as three small provisions in the final tax bill agreed to by the House and Senate were found by the Senate parliamentarian to violate the budget rules that Republicans must follow to pass their bill through a process that shields it from a Democratic filibuster. As a result, the bill changed slightly in the Senate, and the House will now need to vote on it again since both chambers must approve identical legislation. Among the items that were deemed out of order was the title of the bill: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The approval of the bill in the House and Senate came over the strenuous objections of Democrats, who have accused Republicans of giving a gift to corporations and the wealthy and driving up the federal debt in the process.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/tax-bill-vote-congress.html
Why didn't they say -
That was even narrower than the House vote that was literally a couple votes away from a failure, where you had "Republicans in disarray®," with 20 of them voting against it.
And here was AP's story for that tax cuts for the rich -
By ALAN FRAM, MARCY GORDON and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER December 2, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph after months of false starts and frustration on other fronts.“Just what the country needs to get growing again,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in an interview after a final burst of negotiation closed in on a nearly $1.5 trillion package that impacts the breadth of American society.
He shrugged off polls finding scant public enthusiasm for the measure, saying the legislation would prove its worth. “Big bills are rarely popular,” he said. “You remember how unpopular ‘Obamacare’ was when it passed?”
Trump on Saturday tweeted his thanks to Senate and House Republicans as they now begin trying to reconcile differences in legislation passed by both chambers, a behind-closed-doors process that is expected to move swiftly. Trump is aiming to sign the tax package into law before Christmas. “Biggest Tax Bill and Tax Cuts in history just passed in the Senate,” he tweeted inaccurately. The overhaul is significant but far from the largest.
Presiding over the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence announced the 51-49 vote to applause from Republicans. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., was the only lawmaker to cross party lines, joining the Democrats in opposition. The measure focuses its tax reductions on businesses and higher-earning individuals, gives more modest breaks to others and offers the boldest rewrite of the nation’s tax system since 1986.
https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-mitch-mcconnell-6a409d3266be46dcaa2f1267fd947a12
Nothing about "divided".
I have subs to WaPo, NYT, The Atlantic, The Philly Inquirer, The Philly Tribune, & Mother Jones, and The Nation (and some mags like Nat Geo).
The problem - particularly with AP, is that they feed most of the smaller media markets and their print/broadcast outlets (I used to work at my college radio station years ago as an example, and we had AP's teletype and audio feed service that we would use for our news broadcasts). And once AP runs with something, it gets spread far and wide fairly rapidly (like you see social media doing today). So when they DO skew their headlines, away it goes nationwide.
But when it comes to LBN, it's getting the "breaking" one up and posted asap - particularly one with at least parts of a story written and ready to go at the earliest possible time (and not just 1-liners before they finally update it with some more). 
Knowing that there are so many people, animals, biomes, that will benefit.
Now, The VOTING RIGHTS ACT! And get dejoy out of the USPS 
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hoping the President and VP Harris can help ramrod this through the Senate and soon.
KY.......
This is a huge fcking deal, regardless of their negativity. Nancy Pelosi is the greatest speaker of the house of all time!
