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pbmus

(12,418 posts)
Wed Jan 12, 2022, 11:10 PM Jan 2022

'Messages between houses'

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🚨BREAKING: Senator Schumer announces plan to push through filibuster and proceed with voting rights legislation using a procedure known as "messages between the Houses" in a caucus memo.

Here's what you need to know🧵👇

When the House and Senate pass different versions of the same bill, the bill must go through reconciliation in order for the chambers to approve the same bill text. Messages between the Houses is a form of reconciliation.

Here's what happens: when chambers disagree on bill text, they can send the bill back and forth to each other with revisions until a final text is agreed upon. Once the bill has been sent between chambers 3 times, the motion to proceed CANNOT be filibustered in the Senate.

Democrats in the House will take a bill that has already undergone messages between the Houses 3 times, substitute the bill's language for the #FreedomToVoteAct and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, pass the legislation and quickly send it to the Senate. #JLVRAA


Once the Senate receives the bill, it will go to the floor for debate. Senate Republicans will be unable to filibuster debate on the bill like they had done 3 times prior on voting rights legislation in 2021. They will have to come to the floor and debate the bill.

During floor debate, you can expect senators to give speeches about the bill and filibuster reform. Amendments can also be added to the bill. Republicans will likely propose amendments to try and remove voter protections.

After senators speak, a motion will be made to end debate on the bill and move to final passage. Republican senators could filibuster the motion, but that would be the opportunity for Senate Democrats to pass a carveout of the filibuster rules for voting rights legislation.

While it's not known how long debate will last, we can expect that a final vote will happen by Monday — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — at the latest. This was the deadline Sen. Schumer set earlier this month in a "Dear Colleague" letter.
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NJCher

(35,422 posts)
5. I think Lawrence O'Donnell talked about
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 02:39 AM
Jan 2022

this on his show tonight.

Very, very interesting.

I hope this works. I know I shouldn't be, but I am actually floored over how blatant they are about cheating minorities out of their right to vote.

As has been questioned numerous times by commentators on the political shows, making it hard to vote works both ways. While republicans perceive this as a way to keep themselves in power, it could also marginalize people in their party who are not so enthralled with its recent turn toward being conspiratorial, lying loons.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
7. This ends the OPEN debate but not the CLOSE filibuster debate, we'll still need 51 votes for close
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 09:55 PM
Jan 2022

... debate and we still don't have them.

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