The Democratic Senate members ARE trying to get a bill pasted…
Ole Bernie Sanders is in Never …Never land….
His time has pasted….
The Progressive Left in Congress resides on the sidelines these days….
Sanders amendments to the reconciliation bill where repeatedly voted down by every Senator except Sanders….
Tensions simmered on the Senate floor early Sunday as members clashed during an overnight voting marathon over a proposal offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to restore the party’s expanded child tax credit.
Sanders offered an amendment to revive the expanded credit, which lapsed late last year, as part of Democrats’ sprawling tax, health care and climate bill, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act. But the Vermont Independent was the only one to support the revision, as it ultimately failed in a 1-97 vote….
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Sanders also introduced amendments to establish a Civilian Climate Corps and another he said is aimed at targeting the fossil fuel industry in the bill. Though both failed in 1-98 and 1-99 votes, respectively.
The amendments from Sanders came as no surprise, as the senator has repeatedly voiced frustration with the Inflation Reduction Act, which is drastically scaled down from the Democrats’ earlier Build Back Better Act that the Vermont senator pushed hard to pass last year…