Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously)

[pecksniff]

Seriously.

It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.
After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden’s signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform, the chamber’s racked up a series of bipartisan accomplishments lately — some of which had eluded Congress for years.

Senators passed an anti-lynching law after literally 200 failed attempts, gave sexual misconduct claims firmer legal footing and approved sweeping postal reform. That’s on top of $14 billion for Ukraine as well as a long-awaited reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act as part of a massive spending bill, not to mention last year’s huge bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is hoping to add a couple more bipartisan wins soon on expanding semiconductor manufacturing as part of a China competitiveness measure as well as limiting the cost of insulin to $35. Those follow-up victories are not guaranteed, but Schumer is feeling good enough to brag a little about how much meaningful legislation has cleared the chamber’s 60-vote threshold in the last five weeks.
“Mitch McConnell may have had 53 votes, but he never put many bills on the floor. When we can get the votes, we want to get it done,” Schumer said in an interview. “With 50 votes, we get a lot more done than they do with 53 votes, because they're not that interested in getting the government to help people.”
The honeymoon may not last long. Schumer isn’t yet giving up on passing another party-line social spending bill after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) spurned Biden’s previous offer in December, citing “conversations going on between varieties of senators” about another stab at a proposal that needs unanimous Democratic support to pass and could make or break Democrats’ fight to keep their majority.
And Schumer isn’t giving up on pushing the GOP; he said there “absolutely” will be election-year debate on legislation that Republicans broadly oppose. Democrats want him to put up votes on enhancing background checks, immigration reform and beefing up civil rights protections. Schumer also intends to quickly confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, which is likely to draw few GOP backers.

 

[BluesDriver66]

A bunch of feel good bullshit that doesn't change the quality of life for most Americans who are struggling. The country is facing serious problems like homelessness, housing prices, child care, elderly care, health care, student debt, etc. What do we get? An anti-lynching law? Talk about a day late and a dollar short. What are they working on next? Buggie whip tax credits and bill that bans smoking in phone booths?

 

[jomar]

Good to see the logjam loosening up some

 

[Rightguide]

Seriously.

All that shit passed because nobody got a chance to read the bill and voted anyway.

 

[pecksniff]

All that shit passed because nobody got a chance to read the bill and voted anyway.

And you know that how?

 

[WillJ8787]

All that shit passed because nobody got a chance to read the bill and voted anyway.

And also the illiterate folks who can't read ...just sayin.