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Back then and Now
Author: Raine
Date: 05/22/2025 13:31:17
On August 24, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill by a margin of 219–212. On November 3, 2021, the bill failed to pass the Senate after falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture. A second attempt to pass it on January 19, 2022, as part of a combined bill with the Freedom to Vote Act, also failed. Again falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, the bill then failed to pass a vote to be exempted from Senate filibuster rules.
Meanwhile, the House passed the awful reconciliation Bill. Over in the Senate, there is no filibuster on reconciliation bills.
You cannot filibuster a reconciliation bill. It only needs 51 votes to pass in the Senate. You can lose three, you'll probably lose Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and probably Rand Paul. And then JD Vance comes and breaks the tie. End of story.
— Lori
Raine on 05/22/2025 14:12:14
Raine on 05/22/2025 14:28:41
Update: This happened last night—Senate Republicans went nuclear, overruling the parliamentarian and blowing up the filibuster to repeal California's vehicle emissions standards.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Many Republicans will likely cite this precedent as reason to bypass the filibuster to pass the reconciliation bill too.
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Raine on 05/22/2025 14:30:18
Greenland has signed a lucrative minerals deal w/ Europe in a blow to Trump. “despite the rhetoric from the Trump admin, no formal dialogue with [the US] had started nor brought about an increased interest in direct investment. Cooperation with both the EU and Denmark was progressing more smoothly”
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) May 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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