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groundloop

(13,574 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 11:36 AM Aug 2022

Senate parliamentarian gives green light to most of Democrats' drug pricing plan

Source: CNN

The Senate parliamentarian has signed off on key climate and health care provisions in the Democrats' major spending bill.

The rulings from Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber's non-partisan rule keeper, come before an expected vote Saturday afternoon to begin debate on the $739 billion climate, health care and tax package titled the "Inflation Reduction Act."

Democrats are using a fast-track process known as reconciliation to pass the bill through a simple majority vote. The Senate parliamentarian is responsible for issuing opinions on whether provisions meet conditions of the budget reconciliation rules.

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The Inflation Reduction Act sets out $369 billion for climate, much of which would go toward tax credits to prop up clean energy technologies. Consumer tax credits are included for Americans to make "home energy efficiency improvements" and for those who purchase electric vehicles.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-parliamentarian-green-light-democrats-drug-pricing-plan/story?id=88034107

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Senate parliamentarian gives green light to most of Democrats' drug pricing plan (Original Post) groundloop Aug 2022 OP
Wish our forefathers created a Supreme Court Parliamentarian. pwb Aug 2022 #1
Good idea Marthe48 Aug 2022 #3
Great Idea! BlueIdaho Aug 2022 #6
This is what I am seeing Eliot Rosewater Aug 2022 #2
Typical negative framing from Politico. summer_in_TX Aug 2022 #5
She rejected inflation caps on prescription drugs IronLionZion Aug 2022 #4

pwb

(12,472 posts)
1. Wish our forefathers created a Supreme Court Parliamentarian.
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 12:25 PM
Aug 2022

Some one to tell them no would have been nice. Oh well

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
6. Great Idea!
Sun Aug 7, 2022, 10:21 AM
Aug 2022

Now that the SC has proven itself to be every bit as political as the House and Senate it’s time to have someone to keep them between the constitutional rails.

summer_in_TX

(4,052 posts)
5. Typical negative framing from Politico.
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 03:17 PM
Aug 2022

The legislative piece lost is a relatively minor one, and I'm sure that Politico knows that.

IronLionZion

(50,848 posts)
4. She rejected inflation caps on prescription drugs
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 03:09 PM
Aug 2022

the rest of it is good like having Medicare negotiate prices

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