There’s a bipartisan tax bill that lift millions of children out of poverty and provides businesses with critical tax breaks. Even though it passed overwhelmingly in the House, GOP senators are stalling it to prevent a “Biden win.” Sound familiar? https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/is-bipartisanship-dead?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
@jaykuo but don’t the Dems control the Senate?
@SolMastodon @jaykuo When it comes to the Senate "Control" becomes a slippery term. To actually control the Senate a party would have to have solidarity and a 60% majority: neither party has perfect solidarity and neither party has a 60% majority. That means the minority party, under the Senate procedures agreed upon as they are right now, can block almost anything that comes before the Senate. There are very few special exceptions, but this bill is not one of them.
@wbpeckham @jaykuo Interesting. Is it worth asking, then, how the measure passed the House if the House is under Republican control?
@SolMastodon @jaykuo Sure: it was a bipartisan bill, both parties worked on it and both parties voted for it. Bill's pass in the house by a simple majority. In the Senate there are Republicans that swing a lot of weight in the party and who are against it. And they do not need the whole Republican side to oppose it, just a total of 40 or more out of 100, because in the Senate it takes 60% to pass instead of a simple majority.