The House Speaker has told her collages that that she will keep them at work until the ‘Build Back Better’ legislation is passed….
Could that mean Thanksgiving at work?
I doubt that…
Of course with their approval the bill goes back to the Senate for their consideration….
Biden and Democrats want/hope things can be approved by the Christmas Holiday….
The week began on a note of jubilation for Democrats, as Biden joined lawmakers from both parties at the White House for a ceremony to sign a roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure package into law. The bipartisan deal took months to complete, at one point becoming a political casualty in the grand war among Democrats over the future of the president’s other spending priorities.
But party lawmakers broke the logjam after liberals, who wanted the two bills to move together, ultimately agreed with moderates to pass solely the infrastructure measure and return to the rest of Biden’s agenda this week. Their joint statement affirming their pact included a pledge from centrists such as Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Stephanie Murphy (D-N.J.), who said they would lend their support after seeing a financial analysis of the bill — or alternatively work with liberals in the event the numbers came out skewed.
Entering the week, liberal and moderate lawmakers each sounded an upbeat note, marking a notable shift from the months of public sparring between them. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the head of the left-leaning Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters late Monday that she still believes “we’ll get a vote this week.”….
Build Back Better House Update…
The House on Thursday opened debate on a sprawling, roughly $2 trillion package to overhaul the country’s health care, education, climate, immigration and tax laws, hoping to advance the next piece of President Biden’s economic agenda before the end of the week.
The day began with a rallying cry from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.): Writing her Democratic caucus, she said that they are on the verge of clinching a “spectacular vision for the future,” less than two weeks after the party helped finalize a second, separate effort to invest anew in the nation’s infrastructure. Biden signed that bipartisan package into law Monday.
“It will create millions of good-paying jobs, lower families costs and cut their taxes, while making the wealthiest few and big corporations pay their fair share,” Pelosi said in the letter….
More…
(Remember the House bill must be adjusted with a Senate vote and go back to the House for final approval)
Jim Sciutto
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For comparison, the CBO estimated the 2017 tax cuts would add $1.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years
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U.S. CBO
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CBO estimates enacting H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, would result in a net increase in the deficit of $367 billion over the 2022-2031 period, not counting additional revenue that may be generated by additional funding for tax enforcement. http://cbo.gov/publication/57627
Art Martin
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another good comparison is ANNUAL defense budget..more than double each year, what CBO says BBB will add to the deficit over 10 years.
Update…
House Republican McCarthy kinda filibustered the vote on Biden’s Build Back Better Bill ….
CNN Breaking News
@cnnbrk
The House will reschedule its vote on Biden’s economic bill after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delayed proceedings with a 4-hour speech
This oughta make Trump happy…
Manu Raju
@mkraju
NEWS: Hoyer tells
@pkcapitol
and me that there will be NO vote tonight. House will come back at 8am
“He wants to do it in the dead of night,” Hoyer says of McCarthy. “We are going to do it in the day.”
He also says he only knows of one Dem defection – Jared Golden.
Breaking….
House passes Biden Build Back Better spending bill
It will now go to the Senate for a trim most likely
would-be Speaker McCarthy* filibustered Build Back Better until this morning’s session, and (not having CNN or C-Span) I guess that it will get a vote (minus Jared Golden, D-Maine) this morning; the House was due to reconvene at 8 a.m.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/spending-bill-house-vote-11-18-21/index.html
*
Meadows slams McCarthy and suggests Trump should be elected speaker if Republicans win House
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/mark-meadows-trump-house-speaker/index.html
The House just passed Biden’s Build Back Better Act. The bill now goes to the Senate.
From CNN’s Clare Foran and Manu Raju
The House just passed President Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act.
The sweeping economic legislation stands as a key pillar of Biden’s domestic agenda.
It would deliver on long-standing Democratic priorities by dramatically expanding social services for Americans, working to mitigate the climate crisis, increasing access to health care and delivering aid to families and children.
What happens next: The bill must now be taken up by the Senate. All 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus must support the package for it to pass under the budget process that Democrats are using to move the legislation without GOP support, but West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has expressed concerns over key elements of the plan and policy fights loom on the horizon.
See a full breakdown of the bill here.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/12/politics/house-reconciliation-package-explainer/index.html
The House just passed President Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, a victory for the party even as the legislation faces a tough road ahead in the Senate.
Democrats could be seen celebrating and clapping after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the legislation’s passage.
The final vote was 220 to 213, with Democrat Jared Golden of Maine voting against the bill. No Republicans voted for it…
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/spending-bill-house-vote-11-19-21/index.html
The House Clerk’s roll-call site shows only 220 Democrats and 213 Republicans total, so to my untrained eyes it seems that two Republicans must have voted aye to counterbalance Jared Golden’s Democratic nay.
Or CNN could have been wrong. This vote (which would be Roll Call no. 384 has not yet appeared on the House Clerk’s web site:
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/spending-bill-house-vote-11-19-21/index.html
House adjourns until next week, after defeating a motion to table reconsideration.
¶ As regards James’ favorite provision, restoring the State & Local Tax (SALT) deduction with no ceiling (or a very high one), not only did Jared Golden (D-Maine 1st) from the Democratic right but Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind-Vt) from the far left also considers this wildly unfair, since it balances all the provisions for working Americans with a huge break for millionaires and billionaires. Michael Bloomberg should be pleased.
Jared Golden (D) represents the 2nd District of Maine, the northern, western and inland (and poorer, farming & logging) district that often votes Republican when the whole state votes for a Democratic presidential candidate. He won by about 20,000 votes last year.
Chellie Pingree (also D), who voted for BBB, represents the coastal (and more prosperous) First District of Maine, which usually votes for Democratic presidential candidates.
Chellie Pingree (D-Maine 1st) won by about 100,000 votes last time, while Jared Golden (D-Me 2nd) won by only 20,000.
No Republicans voted for the spending bill. Only one Democrat voted against it.
From CNN’s Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer
The final tally of the spending bill vote was 220 to 213.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to vote against the bill and no Republicans voted for it.
Golden announced ahead of the final House vote that he would vote against the bill, citing the tax provision.
“Many of my colleagues argue this major line item is worth accepting to pass the rest of the bill,” Golden said in a statement to the Bangor Daily News. “I disagree: the SALT giveaway in the Build Back Better Act is larger than the child care, pre-K, healthcare or senior care provisions of the bill.”
Golden did not rule out voting for the final package in the future.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the legislation against criticism that wealthy Americans will benefit disproportionately as a result of the provisions….
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/spending-bill-house-vote-11-19-21/index.html
Final roll call on BBB: Scott Perry (R-Pa 10th) did not vote but all the other 213 Republicans voted nay, as did Jared Golden (D-Me 2nd). All the other 220 Democrats voted aye.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021385
Surprised with the Jared Golden vote, although his district is quite conservative.
CNN reports that Jared Golden (D-Maine 2nd) says he won’t rule out voting for reconciliation (BBB) once it comes back from the Senate — where no doubt it will have been tweaked yet again to win the votes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
As I explained above, although I know rather little about Down East politics, Jared Golden represents the inland, sparse and very poor, 2nd District of Maine (hit badly by a decline in logging), which tends to vote Republican while the whole State of Maine votes for a Democratic presidential candidate. In 2020, he won by about 20,000 votes.
The U.S. Representative from the coastal, more-prosperous and more-diverse First District (which votes blue in presidential elections) is Chellie Pingree (D), who won by 100,000 votes last year.
Also surprised by the Scot Perry non-vote, although he was probably preoccupied with non-official business. Hard to image that this far right conservative was indifferent with the bill.
I think this Republican scumbag was out beating up a woman, he likes doing that apparently.
I had not heard that Keith, although Perry did vote against the violence against women Act years ago.
He’s got Covid I think.
He reportedly tested positive last week.
Covid for the unvaccinated, what a surprise.