Republican legislation is being passed in Democratic-led Senate

[Marius25]

Due to Feinstein's absence, Manchin is the swing vote and he just passed this bill with Republicans.

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That's insane to me. What good is controlling the Senate when Republicans still get to pass what they want and block our nominations?

[Cha]

1. Does it require a Sig from Pres Biden

to become law?

[GregariousGroundhog]

15. Yes

The Congressional Review Act requires federal agencies to provide Congress with a copy of newly created regulations and sets out a expedited procedure for Congress to pass disapproval resolutions rescinding these regulations. In order to pass, disapproval resolutions must receive a majority vote in both the House and Senate and be signed by the President no later than 60 legislative days after being received by Congress.

As part of the expedited procedure, the 30 senators can move the disapproval resolution to the floor, and debate is limited to 10 hours. As such, it cannot be filibustered.

Bush signed one disapproval of a Clinton regulation, Biden signed three disapprovals of a Trump regulation, and Trump signed 16 disapprovals. Trump's disapprovals are actually interesting because only 14 of the regulations were from the Obama administration; he agreed with Congress to undo regulations created by his own administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act

[Cha]

22. Thank You!

[Phoenix61]

2. Of course he did. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Wutta fucking mess

Of COURSE he's helping GQQPers. He's trying to stay in office in the face of GQQP Justice, a former Dem, running against him.

If all our Senators were on the job, we would be here.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

4. So it gets vetoed instead of not passing the Senate.

[tritsofme]

5. Not really worth whining about

President Biden will bust out his veto pen. The end.

[Polybius]

6. How?

Even with Dianne Feinstein out, there's still 50 of us plus the VP. Besides, Schumer controls what bills are put forward.

[Crepuscular]

7. ...

The VP only votes to break a tie, if Manchin votes with the 49 Republicans, there is no tie, there is a majority. If DiFi is back, then it's a tie and the VP can vote to break it.

[Polybius]

8. What about that last part?

Schumer has the final say on what bills are put forward. Why is he allowing this to happen?

[Crepuscular]

13. ...

I would guess it's because he does not want to totally alienate Manchin, which is why Joe may not exercise his veto power. If they want Manchins vote on other more important legislation, signing off on small stuff that Manchin supports may be a reasonable quid pro quo.

If Manchin and Sinema decided to caucus with the Republicans, then we lose the senate.

[GregariousGroundhog]

16. Take a look at what I wrote in post 15 above

The short answer is that the CRA allows 30 senators to bring a disapproval resolution to the Senate floor and debate is limited to ten hours. After 10 hours of debate, it's a straight up majority vote. It cannot be filibustered.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

9. Another in a long series of attacks on a very fine US Democratic Senator here on DU.

President Biden has veto power. Full stop.

This shit is getting very old.

[inthewind21]

10. Beyond old

Along with the absolute lack of understanding HOW the government works is maddening.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

14. I joined this forum thinking its purpose was to support Democrats.

In the main, that's been a major disappointment.

[leftstreet]

17. No. It's a complaint about an elected rep not doing her job n/t

[Just A Box Of Rain]

19. Malarky.

These are uncalled for attacks on a venerable Democrat who is in recovery from an illness.

No one would stand for such a thing is the bashing was aimed at John Fetterman (nor should we), but it seems only some Democrats are really Democrats here on DU.

The ongoing attacks on Dianne Feinstein are shameful in the extreme.

[leftstreet]

20. LOL n/t

[Just A Box Of Rain]

21. Not remotely funny.

[Demsrule86]

11. Feinstein needs to retire ASAP.

[BannonsLiver]

18. "BuT sHe MuSt bE aLloWed tO sTay nO mAtTeR wHaT or ElSe iTs AgEiSm!11"

[Hortensis]

12. Who tells the electorate that Democrats and Republicans are basically the same?

(Today's forced revision, Democrats somewhat better but not nearly enough.)

Actually, my real question is, why haven't those who do all been shown the virtual door long before this? Sincerely deluded or cynically deceiving, the suppressive effect on votes for Democrats is the same.

Although this situation is unfortunate, there will never be a time when all senators will always be available.

The answer is always, elect ENOUGH Democrats. Btw, New Deal voters turned DC over to the Democrats with a supermajority in the senate. Those people were done complaining.