Republicans say President Biden
Joe Biden Obama, Clinton reflects on Mondale’s legacy Biden, Harris recommends Mondale that he paved the way for the female VP Mondale in the last message to staff: ‘Joe in the White House definitely helps’ MOREThe $ 2.3 billion infrastructure package will pass through the Senate intact, due to several key provisions that will open the law to parliamentary challenges under the foolish Byrd rule.
IDP legislators plan to raise numerous procedural objections to the final bill, arguing that various elements violate the special budget rules that Democrats intend to pass the measure in the Senate 50-50 by a simple majority vote.
“It’s a targeted environment,” Sen. Lindsey Graham
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Graham said he was in talks with his staff about how to use the Byrd rule to block components of Biden’s infrastructure plan if the Democrats were to follow the budget reconciliation process so they could sidestep a likely GOP filibuster.
At the top of the Republican target list is part of Biden’s proposal related to legislation that makes it easier for unions to organize – a top Democratic policy goal after Amazon defeated a union in a warehouse in Alabama this spring .
Parliamentary experts say Biden and Senate majority leader Charles Schumer
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“Many of these infrastructure assets have not been assessed in the past,” said James Wallner, a former assistant to the GOP and Senate legal expert.
“What is interesting about reconciliation now is that it is being used for purposes that are completely unrelated to the reconciliation that was intended,” he said. ‘Nobody is under the illusion that the reconciliation process is no longer used for purely fiscal policy reasons. This is a way to get through the filibuster. ”
The reconciliation process was instituted by the 1974 Congressional Budget Act to make it easier for Congress to reduce the deficit by shifting the traditional 60-vote barrier to Senate legislation. Over the years, the interpretation of what reconciliation entails has become increasingly widespread.
It will be Senate MP Elizabeth MacDonough to decide how far the Democrats can extend the reconciliation process.
Republicans won a landslide victory in February when MacDonough ruled that Democrats could not include language in Biden’s $ 1.9 billion coronavirus relief to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 by 2025.
Republicans say they have a strong argument for destroying part of Biden’s plan calling for Congress Protection of the Right to Organize Act (PRO), which will restrict the right to work-to-work laws and punish employers who interfere in union operations.
Biden’s proposal would also have Congress commit federal investments in clean energy and infrastructure to the requirements that employers must pay prevailing wages and that transportation investments meet the existing protections of transportation workers.
The White House argues that increased union will increase economic growth by improving productivity.
Republicans say, however, that measures such as the PRO Act amount to changes in labor policy that detract from the Byrd rule because any changes in spending or income it generates are accidental.
“This is almost a no-brainer from my perspective: it will not violate the Byrd Rule provision,” said Bill Hoagland, a senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former Republican chief of staff for the Senate. budget committee, said. “It is certainly important for the president, for his agenda, but it is merely coincidental from a fiscal policy perspective.”
Hoagland also expressed concern about language in Biden’s plan that would give caregivers higher salaries and better benefits by ” having an opportunity to organize or join a trade union and negotiate jointly. ”
A provision in the infrastructure package would expand access to long-term care services under Medicaid by giving low-income people more opportunity to receive home care. Republican critics warn it would significantly expand Medicaid authority.
Another aspect of Biden’s proposal that could get in trouble with the parliamentarian is a call to ‘eliminate exclusionary management and harmful land use policies’.
Biden’s team argues that ‘zoning exclusion laws’, such as minimum lot sizes, mandatory parking requirements and bans on multi-family homes, are raising house prices and ‘closing families outside areas with more opportunities’.
Hoagland said these regulatory measures should be taken away from any reconciliation package.
“The unions, the union, the provision related to the regulations for cantilever and all the other things that are in it would not qualify,” he said, referring to the language covered by caregivers and exclusionary destination. “Anything related to regulatory activities would not qualify either.”
One caveat to predict how the parliamentarian can decide is that legislators do not yet have to draft the legislative language. The White House has only released a detailed fact sheet.
Some Democratic policy experts agree that the language that strengthens the hands of trade union negotiators with employers seems to be in conflict with Senate rules governing what can be included in a reconciliation package.
“The pro-law does not fit under the budget conciliation,” said one former Senate Democratic aide.
“It will have no fiscal impact, and therefore it will have no fiscal impact in a Byrd-bad situation,” the former assistant said, referring to the process in which Democratic and Republican assistants submit arguments to parliamentarians about what included be in a reconciliation package.
Sen. Sherrod Brown
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“It’s not clear yet,” he added. “It’s very important to many of us.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
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Capito specifically noted that the congressional authorization for highway and transit funding will expire on September 30, raising questions as to whether Congress can use budget reconciliation to expand highway and transit programs, or spend money on programs with expired authorization or no authorization.
“My tendency is that some of the things the president wants to put forward are not authorized and that you run into Byrd rule issues, or you’re applying an unauthorized program,” said Capito, a member of the Senate Credit Committee.
“I do not know if they can pass a full bill through reconciliation,” she said.
Hoagland, the former chief of staff of the Budget Committee, said that Congress had solved the problem earlier this year by combining authority and credits in direct spending in the $ 1.9 billion bill.
However, Hoagland warned that the solution was considered a one-time exception to prevent the authority of the Senate and House Credit Committees from being undermined.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin
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“Last year, the Senate Credit Committee disappeared. No budget resolution … no hearings of the subcommittee, no full committee hearings, ”he said. “We are starting at a very low point in terms of what happened to the Senate Credit Committee.”