What’s going on with the two bills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a mess on the Dems plate when the GOP could have, with the Dems who voted for it, passed the bill? GOP didn't.

The GOP WOULD HAVE voted for the infrastructure bill, but Nancy never brought it up for a vote.
The progressives (and Nancy) are holding it hostage.

No, the GOP would not have voted for it. The GOP leadership is whipping votes against that bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a mess on the Dems plate when the GOP could have, with the Dems who voted for it, passed the bill? GOP didn't.

The GOP WOULD HAVE voted for the infrastructure bill, but Nancy never brought it up for a vote.
The progressives (and Nancy) are holding it hostage.

No, the GOP would not have voted for it. The GOP leadership is whipping votes against that bill.

Now they are because it looks like the two bills are going to be linked.

[Anonymous]

Good luck with the ads in the summer of 2022 talking about how the incumbent voted against all this stuff that is popular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with the ads in the summer of 2022 talking about how the incumbent voted against all this stuff that is popular.

If it passes all the incumbent Rs are going to take credit for it anyway, just like they did with the covid relief that they all voted against.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it a mess on the Dems plate when the GOP could have, with the Dems who voted for it, passed the bill? GOP didn't.

The GOP WOULD HAVE voted for the infrastructure bill, but Nancy never brought it up for a vote.
The progressives (and Nancy) are holding it hostage.

No, the GOP would not have voted for it. The GOP leadership is whipping votes against that bill.

Now they are because it looks like the two bills are going to be linked.

They were whipping against it well before that.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/politics/infrastructure-bill-vote-house-republicans/index.html

[Anonymous]

Smart, kind compassionate care mixed with self-responsibility. I like it.

Start with lowering the cut-off of HHI to no more than $175,000. $400K is ridiculous. And really the HHI cut-off should vary by state COL but I don't know if they're willing to implement that.

[Anonymous]

Oops another Democrat who says BBB is dead in the water with too much going on.

[Anonymous]

THANK YOU - so agree. What use is a dental program that starts in 2028? This bill was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Unfortunately, the draft reconciliation bill in its current form opts for the path of least resistance, taking too many shortcuts and skirting difficult decisions.

Take, for example, the proposal’s expansion of the Medicare program to cover vision, dental and hearing, a policy that has merit. However, to implement this policy, the draft reconciliation bill relies on budget gimmicks, with dental benefits not taking effect until 2028.

The decision to delay these benefits was based in significant part on a desire to lower the overall price tag of the bill, but it is disingenuous, allowing lawmakers to try to claim they made a historic expansion that may never take effect while obscuring the true cost of the expansion, at potential risk to the broader Medicare program.

[Anonymous]

How many dems can pelosi afford to lose? 3?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smart, kind compassionate care mixed with self-responsibility. I like it.

Start with lowering the cut-off of HHI to no more than $175,000. $400K is ridiculous. And really the HHI cut-off should vary by state COL but I don't know if they're willing to implement that.

In the quoted tweet : “I don’t believe that we should turn our society into an entitlement society. I think that we should still be a compassionate, rewarding society,” Sen. Joe Manchin says amid budget negotiations on Capitol Hill.

And to blame all flooding on climate change? Build on a swamp, pond, wetlands, ignore topology + topography + water tables + gravity. Here is an article on an area in Queens -NYC. Due to high water tables the area was served by municipal wells. Connected to city water in 1986 and the water still accumulates in the wells. No pumping of the wells and the area was a natural pond. https://gothamist.com/news/why-one-queens-block-has-flooded-decades

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many dems can pelosi afford to lose? 3?

Doesn’t look like they have it together in either chamber

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

*watches with irony*

[Anonymous]

I mean yeah…we’ve been saying that for weeks. Meanwhile ACTUAL Infrastruture has a bill and it passed the Senate.

[Anonymous]

Wow some common sense from a major Dem operative