Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoHouse GOP Sneaks Pay Raise for Themselves in Shutdown Billwww.meidastouch.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1434arrow-down118
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minus-squarePatFusty@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·9 months agoUhhh… is that how that works? I would imagine you cant do a bait and switch where you pass one bill and propose another when it gets to the senate. The bill already passed through the house.
minus-squareJerkface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 months agoThe Senate produced their own bill, which McCarthy did not bring to the floor for a vote. This bill from the house now goes to the Senate to die.
minus-squareHoomod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoThe senate had been working towards voting on (because a group of republican senators were delaying it) a bill that was almost identical to what just passed the house.
Uhhh… is that how that works? I would imagine you cant do a bait and switch where you pass one bill and propose another when it gets to the senate.
The bill already passed through the house.
The Senate produced their own bill, which McCarthy did not bring to the floor for a vote. This bill from the house now goes to the Senate to die.
The senate had been working towards voting on (because a group of republican senators were delaying it) a bill that was almost identical to what just passed the house.