Reply #3: Simple solution, then. [View All]

[Igel]

Have the Senate vote on the bill, amended if they don't like the House version; then they can deal with conference committee. They've had many a bill worked over *during* a real recess. This isn't even a real recess.

Or perhaps the Senate could have voted it down.

Instead, the Senate decided to say, "Oh, look: A bill. Let's have somebody else pick up the bill, we're going home."

As it is, the Senate seems to be saying, a bit too often: Look, House, we don't like this bill, it's so DOA that we're not even going to bother to vote on it--we just want you to go and pass a bill to our liking, one that we can pass without having to work out any relations between the (D) and the (R).

That's not the Senate's role, whatever Reid may think.

The (R) are petty. But it's hard to see the (D) as having much more heft.