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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 05:10 PM Dec 2019

House progressives may try to block vote on Pelosi drug bill


House progressives may try to block vote on Pelosi drug bill
By Peter Sullivan - 12/06/19 03:54 PM EST


House progressives are considering voting against a procedural motion to proceed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) signature bill to lower drug prices next week unless they get changes to the measure, effectively threatening to stop the bill in its tracks.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Friday is conducting a whip count of its 98 members to see how many would be willing to vote no on what is known as the “rule” for the legislation.

The move, while not certain yet, is a sign of the intense frustration among some progressive House lawmakers that they have not been able to win changes to the bill they have sought for months, in what they say has been a closed-off, top-down process.

Voting no on the rule, a procedural measure which sets the terms of debate for the bill itself, would stop the bill from coming up for a vote. Progressives hope that could force leadership to either allow floor votes on progressive amendments or make changes to the underlying bill before the vote.

“There are a lot of people who are saying if we don't get some of these things in, we have to consider all our options, including voting against the rule,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the co-chair of the CPC, told reporters on Friday.


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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/473429-house-progressives-may-try-to-block-vote-on-pelosi-drug-bill
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House progressives may try to block vote on Pelosi drug bill (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2019 OP
We can only present a "meh bill"... Trump does NOT want to sign anything having to do with secondwind Dec 2019 #1
Sometimes something is better than nothing, any way the Senate will beachbumbob Dec 2019 #2

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. We can only present a "meh bill"... Trump does NOT want to sign anything having to do with
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 05:12 PM
Dec 2019

lower drug prices, even though he campaigned on this.

My advice to the progressives in the House would be to pass what they can, and continue the good fight, we cannot get everything in the first round.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
2. Sometimes something is better than nothing, any way the Senate will
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 05:46 PM
Dec 2019

never consider it.

Compromise is hard for ideologues to do, at either extreme

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