It's going to pass......JMHO.

[Maru Kitteh]

57. This congress, this administration, are new.

You have to put bills together with those who will be voting on them. Unless your only intention is showboating, you have to work with the President who will sign it. You craft legislation to react to current circumstances and base your arguments on current information.

Sure they had 7 years to come up with a basic outline, but that basic outline has to change with every new congress and shifting political winds and realities. No matter how much time they had before the clock began on the 115th Congress, they had to write the bill in this time. If they truly wanted it to work, they had to bring in the stakeholders, they had to get popular support, they had to spend the time to gather a coalition. If they were serious, they would spend a year on it, or even 3 or 4 months on it.

Dogs caught the bus.