Welcome to the slogan.
East Coast Major League baseball teams endure a blow. They have a big trip on the west coast that stretches over a few weeks. Games in Arizona. San Diego. Los Angeles. San Francisco. Oakland.
College students encounter the slogan. The last class work, two weeks to the end of the semester – followed by finals.
And Congress is no stranger to the slogan. Especially if there is a big, expensive bill that hampers the parliamentary pike.
This is the case over the next few weeks as Congress seeks to finalize the Democrats’ $ 1.9 billion coronavirus relief bill.
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Completing the fifth round of COVID assistance was a blow. Talks began during the summer. Congress finally passed the bill just before Christmas. It then faced a veto of former President Trump. But the president signed the measure just before the new year.
It was a blow. A drawn-out, slow motion.
The attempt to pass the sixth major coronavirus package is sprint slogging. It will consume two weeks (or more) of traffic on the Congress stage. But that would be a slogan. Maybe even devour the following weekends.
Or three.
The House Budget Committee formally launched the “slogan” Monday afternoon. The panel this week wrote its special budget conciliation measure to deal with the $ 1.9 billion coronavirus aid bill.
“We are in a race against time,” said House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth D-Ky. “Obesity action is needed before our nation is deeply and permanently plagued by the human and economic costs of inaction.”
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Consider this first measure as the ‘shell’ to handle the actual account. A vehicle. The final text for coronavirus accounts will “drive” within the COVID package.
The measure then goes to the House Rules Committee. House Democrats insist their members be given a full three days to consider the package. That is why we are looking at a vote on Friday or Saturday on this repetition of the legislation.
This is a massive 600 page account.
Republicans have grasped how much of the plan has little to do with tackling the pandemic – from a health or economic perspective. Some of it can be discussed. But Republicans have cited $ 35 billion in subsidies to help with the premiums for affordable care law, $ 1 billion for underprivileged farmers. $ 30 billion for local transportation systems. And something that Republicans in general opposed last year, a staggering $ 350 billion for local and state governments.
“Now we know it’s a wrong plan for all the wrong reasons,” protested Jason Smith (R-MO), the leading Republican in the Budget Committee. Smith argued that the government should still spend more than $ 1 trillion from previous COVID packages.
The most controversial provision in the bill is an increase in the hourly minimum wage to $ 15. Republicans – and even some Democrats – are more than willing to fight it.
“What does this have to do with COVID lighting?” asks House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. “Those small businesses are going to have an even harder time coming back if you go for a minimum wage of $ 15. These things have nothing to do with COVID.”
Democrats will likely have to work alone in the House and in the Senate to approve this measure. But it’s not out of the question for Democrats to pick a GOPer or two in one of the two bodies to vote yes.
The Senate will only tackle the initial version of the reconciliation plan next week. The House plans to get the Senate bill back next week. An amendment deadline for the final House Plan is set for Thursday. The House will then likely consider the final version of the bill next week or when the Senate returns it over the Rotunda.
Despite the (mostly) IDP protests over the minimum wage increase, Senate MP Elizabeth MacDonough rules the $ 15 out of action.
This is why it is a problem:
The House and Senate use special budget conciliation rules to promote the coronavirus bill because it could promote a filibuster. There is no way the Democrats could cast 60 votes to overcome a conventional filibuster. But by using the special budget reconciliation process for this COVID bill, Democrats can short the bill. If the Democrats of the Senate hold together and get all 50 Senate Democrats to vote yes, they can pass the benchmark with the interruption of Vice President Harris.
The conclusion is, however, that the Reconciliation Bill cannot contain policy provisions or increase the deficit over a long period of time.
Provisions such as the minimum wage may be in conflict with both of the above requirements. So the Liberals of the House will probably vote for the minimum wage in the first package. But must then make a ruling if it is removed from the Senate package. Democrats also have the opportunity to say they voted for it – but then blame the “nasty old Senate and its bizarre budget rules” for stripping the minimum wage increase.
But will House Democrats stay together?
Remember there are a number of topics that senators can scrape out because they are not in line with the budget rules.
You see, the House does not have to meet the requirements of budget reconciliation. The Senate does that. It is therefore possible that you have many of these terms just for display.
$ 100 million for the Bay Area Highway extension has attracted the attention of some GOPers.
“This is one of the dangers of having such a large account,” complains Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. “Let’s not build an underground railroad through Silicon Valley.”
House Democrats can only lose five votes and pass a bill on their own without needing Republican help. And the Democratic leaders of the House concede that they expect the COVID bill they are sending to the Senate to be another beast when it returns. The House will have to accept the Senate version to have both bodies on the same page.
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Senate Democrats may not have the votes to pass the measure on their own, even if MacDonough states that the minimum wage provision is in order. Sens Kyrsten Cinema, D-Ariz., And Joe Manchin, DW.Va., are against raising the minimum wage in this bill.
This is why it can be a slogan. You never know exactly how long it will take to massage all the stipulations and make sure votes are in the right place.
The aim is for both institutions to approve the bill by early March. This is when a number of benefits approved in the previous COVID account expire. That race against time is the reason why the next few weeks are going to be a battle.
Until the following COVID account.