Senate LIVE:

[joshcryer]

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm

Schumer is up now, after Mcconnell bloviated about "handouts for the rich" even though the $2,000 bill only goes to people who make $75,000 or less.

[joshcryer]

1. Motions to Proceed to Consider Measures in the Senate: Who Offers Them?

In recent practice, the Senate generally cedes to its majority leader the prerogative of calling up items of business for floor consideration. Most measures are brought to the floor by unanimous consent, but when this consent cannot be obtained, a motion to proceed to consider can be used to accomplish the same purpose. Sometimes a Senator other than the majority leader offers this motion, but usually this occurs in coordination with the majority leader.

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Of 628 motions to proceed to consider measures in the Senate from 1979 through 2014, all but 28 were offered either by the majority leader or apparently at his direction. In the four most recent Congresses (2007-2014), the number of motions to proceed offered per Congress has been significantly greater than before. Reasons for this increase may relate to changes in (1) the use of daily adjournments rather than recesses, (2) the way cloture is used in relation to these motions, or (3) the degree of deference paid to the majority leader in the exercise of his scheduling function.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS21255.html

Sanders. Schumer. You know what to do. Do not go down without putting these people on record. They must be put on record voting it down. Simple as that.

Mitch McConnel used this very procedure when he was minority leader: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/26