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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi rejects Manchin's call for a 'pause,' shows little willingness to pare back $3.5 trillion bil [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,842 posts)bills do not become laws without BOTH chambers participating. And when it comes to large packages like this, there is usually a "Joint Conference Committee" created to work out the deeper details of reconciling different versions of those bills. It consists of appointed members from both chambers selected by each chamber's leadership. A good description of that is here - https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2009/1030/dc-decoder-when-bills-go-to-conference-committee-what-happens
Unfortunately much of what goes on "in public" during this process, leaves people frustrated. HOWEVER it is actually something that is "standard procedure" and is very common when it comes to negotiating anything - for example union contracts, often done "in the press" (across all sorts of industries), where a union may say nasty things about "management" and will threaten to go on strike while management will say nasty things about the union and insist their "hands are tied", and they can't budge.
I.e., in most (not all) cases, it's usually "theater" - the bluster and threats and cajoling and carrots and sticks. Meanwhile the real work happens out of the public eye.
I know I have posted this many times before (and was able to actually see it here in Philly just before the pandemic hit), but this also sums it up (and I have taken many workshops and training courses on "Negotiation Skills" and used to be a union local President who participated in negotiating a contract back early in my career) -