Schumer in talks with McConnell as shutdown fears grow: 'We may now have to go first'

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5. It's a neat trick that they do all the time (I have posted about it often)

They will take a bill that has already been passed by the House and sent to the Senate for consideration (whether it is the intended bill or some other related bill) and then they take their drafted language and once that version passes cloture, will then put up a motion to do an "Amendment as a Substitute" to the whatever House bill they are going to use, and basically wipe most of the House bill and replace it with their draft language in its entirety. Then assuming that passes the Senate, they will send it BACK to the House for consideration.

The House can then:

1.) Debate and vote on it "as is" in an up or down vote
2.) Seek to amend the amendment (requiring debate time and votes for each Amendment) and when done, vote on passage of the amended version to send BACK to the Senate
3.) Finally start getting serious and try to get some kind of "Joint" Conference together between the chambers with members from each working on some version that could pass both chambers, and then present THAT to their respective chambers for debate/vote "as is" (usually they'll try to come up with a Rule for no more Amendments or if they have any, they limit the number) and then the votes commence again.
4.) Ignore it and just let the government shut down while they work on whatever they were working on in all-nighters