#Gridlock alert days 2021 full#
Whenever a party doesn’t have full supermajority control of Congress, they’re going to be forced into this process every time they try to do special budget bills. And in order to go through this process in the Senate, we had a vote-a rama that went to four in the morning. And the only other way to try to get bills to the floor is to attach it to a ‘must-pass’ government shutdown looming kind of legislation.Īnother concept that’s popped up, that’s not part of the Schoolhouse Rock lesson is vote-a-rama. The only other thing that motivates Congress to get things done is a deadline. It’s the only game in town if you want to have substantial changes to policy. It is extremely rare for either governing party to be able to put together a package that can actually get signed into law. The only way it can get to the floor is if the party leaders on each side can say, ‘we have the votes to pass this.’ And to add to the complexity, when we’re talking about the infrastructure bill, we’re really talking about two: the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a separate $3.5 trillion dollar bill that was split off because they realized this wouldn’t pass the filibuster but instead with reconciliation?
But they’re not the ones who are going to have the gavel at the end of the day, approving a bill out of the committee and sending it to the floor.
These very senior committee chairmen like DeFazio who supposedly have all this power, in the end they don’t really have any say?
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