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It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.
After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Bidens signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform, the chambers racked up a series of bipartisan accomplishments lately some of which had eluded Congress for years.
Senators passed an anti-lynching law after literally 200 failed attempts, gave sexual misconduct claims firmer legal footing and approved sweeping postal reform. Thats on top of $14 billion for Ukraine as well as a long-awaited reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act as part of a massive spending bill, not to mention last years huge bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is hoping to add a couple more bipartisan wins soon on expanding semiconductor manufacturing as part of a China competitiveness measure as well as limiting the cost of insulin to $35. Those follow-up victories are not guaranteed, but Schumer is feeling good enough to brag a little about how much meaningful legislation has cleared the chambers 60-vote threshold in the last five weeks.
Mitch McConnell may have had 53 votes, but he never put many bills on the floor. When we can get the votes, we want to get it done, Schumer said in an interview. With 50 votes, we get a lot more done than they do with 53 votes, because they're not that interested in getting the government to help people.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schumer-s-senate-shocker-bills-are-passing-seriously/ar-AAV4dj6?ocid=msedgntp
In four years under TFG they did one thing... Massive tax breaks for the top 1%, that is it. Chuck Schumer is doing an impressive job with what he is getting done, his head is in his job and he is getting it done for the American people.
SheltieLover
(80,473 posts)Pobeka
(5,006 posts)uponit7771
(93,532 posts)Amishman
(5,929 posts)Let's keep trying new things that might actually pass
kentuck
(115,407 posts)...it is because they are reading the polls from their home districts and they are on a losing path for the next election and they need to change their tactics.
forgotmylogin
(7,952 posts)If it's more likely to get bills passed if they're not vaunted as "Joe Biden's signature (whatever) bill that he ran his campaign on"...
If the news touts that Biden needs a win, they all dig in their heels, but if they do business as usual they're not as obstinate.
I mean, we take the wins where we can get them, as childish as that would be.
bucolic_frolic
(55,143 posts)multigraincracker
(37,651 posts)that didn't even vote for those bills tried to take credit. Now we have the cash to go after them, they are worried. Keep the pressure on em.
Ohio Joe
(21,898 posts)Get that info in ads.
mcar
(46,058 posts)They are doing an amazing job with a split Senate - Schumer just moved for cloture on 13 more Federal judges too.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)In the letter he attacks Biden over the Mexican border.
I responded by Email and I will also respond with a phone call.
The puke trump was going to solve all this with a wall. A wall Mexico was going to pay for. His own party did not fund his wall and Mexico did not pay for it. Yet my lying fool representative attacks Biden.
Brian Fitzpatrick 1st Pa.
If you are in his district please contact him.
Cha
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