Remember the 400+ bills sitting on McConnell's desk with no action?

[Frustratedlady]

What happened when he lost the majority? Does Schumer resume processing those bills or do they have to be resubmitted?

It was inexcusable that McConnell let them pile up like he did out of political orneriness. It made Schumer's job already overloaded before he was able to pick up the gavel. There should be some kind of ruling that such mismanagement is never again allowed to happen.

It would be interesting to see a list of the bills McConnell refused to process.

[JI7]

1. They "expire" I think. The new Congress has to pass it again

[Frustratedlady]

2. I wonder how much that would cost in time/money?

I swear, they waste more money than necessary and it's getting worse. There should be some way to remedy that failure to manage the senate.

[NJCher]

3. List

https://forwardky.com/what-died-on-mitchs-desk/

For more google “mitch’s Graveyard.”

If they are already written it should not be too much work to reintroduce them.

[Celerity]

4. ...

[Frustratedlady]

5. Thank you for the information. He truly is a grim reaper...an evil grim reaper.

I hope they don't have any children or grandchildren. Some people just shouldn't reproduce.

[Hortensis]

6. Boy, do I agree with that last. To our knowledge,

neither has reproduced. That's something anyway.

[2naSalit]

14. Sadly, they have...

Three spawn and some of them have reproduced (I saw an article a week or so ago that claimed his grandkids had been threatened).

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

[OnDoutside]

7. Have a look at this thread i did last in January

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214899979

[Frustratedlady]

8. Thanks! I missed that post. Hopefully, the Democrats will show those "others" how to run a govt.

and get the really important bills through the senate. Looks like a lot of good titles.

Lots of hours wasted because of incompetence and stubbornness.

When you consider 8 years of making sure Obama didn't succeed, plus these last 4 years (and, a capitol that will cost in excess of $30M to repair) it's amazing anything was accomplished beyond losing income through tax relief for the rich.

[OnDoutside]

9. That's why this Covid Relief Bill needs to be rammed through asap, and while I wish the HR1/VRA/S1

was the next big Bill to be rammed through (Biden wants to do the Infrastructure Bill next), I think the impact of two massive Bills will be huge as to showing people what can be achieved, and what wasn't for the last decade.

The one fear I have is that Red State Governors might refuse the money, like they did with Medicare Expansion, so republican voters won't see the benefit.

[gab13by13]

10. Republican governors who refuse the money

isn't going to happen. They can't be that stupid and evil can they?

[OnDoutside]

15. Yes they can, it's about ideology for them

And there's this, as of August 2020

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, allows states to decide whether or not to opt in to the law’s Medicaid expansion.

Twelve states have yet to pass a Medicaid expansion: Wyoming, Texas, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas and Florida.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Hopefully all those people the past couple years, who were blaming "Democrats"

for "doing nothing" or for not magically "ramming through" all those bills to help Americans passed by the House after we took over that chamber as a result of the 2018 election. Turtle threw them all in the recycle bin (never assigning them to Senate Committees for consideration, markups/amendments, and a vote).

In other words, the GOP dispensed of what is commonly called "Regular Order" and ground the whole works to a halt - but only after THEY rammed through their tax cuts for the wealthy in 2017 (since they controlled both chambers and the Presidency at the time).

And yes as others noted, all of those bills from the previous ("116th Congress" ) session expired, so they will have to start over and reintroduce them for this new "117th Congress" (which they are doing - in some cases with some modifications).

[Lonestarblue]

12. The Voting Rights Act needs to be a high priority.

And now that Dems can pass it (screw the filibuster), it needs to be made even stronger to prevent corrupt state Republicans from making it too difficult to vote. Can Congress outlaw gerrymandering?

[Bettie]

13. It does need to be a priority

but it will be fillibustered and I don't see any way around that unless it is tacked to an appropriations bill.

And yes, if that's what needs to happen, then they should do it.

[MineralMan]

16. New Congress. New Bills.

Old bills are no longer valid.

[thesquanderer]

17. Some of those bills may have been "statement" bills...

...passed by the House to make a statement, with the full knowledge that they would never even come up for a vote in the Senate. Now that they could actually possibly be considered, the House has to be more realistic about the bills they pass.