Republicans say President Biden
Joe Biden Obama, Clinton Reflect on Mondale’s Legacy Biden, Harris praises Mondale for paving the way for female vice president Mondale in the latest message to staff: “Joe in the White House certainly helps” MOREThe $ 2.3 trillion infrastructure package will have a hard time getting through the Senate intact due to several key provisions that will open legislation to parliamentary challenges under the arcane Byrd Rule.
Republican lawmakers plan to raise numerous procedural objections to the eventual bill, arguing that several elements violate the special budget rules Democrats plan to use to pass the measure in the 50-50 Senate with a simple majority vote.
“It’s a goal-rich environment,” Sen said. Lindsey Graham
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Graham said he has been in talks with his staff about how to use Byrd’s rule to block components of Biden’s infrastructure plan if Democrats pursue the budget reconciliation process, allowing them to dodge a likely GOP filibuster.
At the top of the list of Republican goals is a section of Biden’s proposed legislation related to legislation that would facilitate the organization of unions, one of the main goals of democratic politics after Amazon profoundly defeated a union in a Alabama warehouse this spring.
Parliamentary experts say Biden and the leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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“Many of these infrastructures have not been awarded in the past,” said James Wallner, a former GOP aide to the Senate and an expert on Senate rules.
“What’s interesting about reconciliation now is that it’s used for purposes completely unrelated to what reconciliation was intended for,” he said. “No one has the illusion that the reconciliation process is already being used for purely fiscal policy reasons. It’s a way of avoiding the filibuster. “
The reconciliation process was established by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it easier for Congress to reduce the deficit by setting aside the traditional 60-vote hurdle to passing legislation in the Senate. Over the years, the interpretation of what constitutes reconciliation has become more and more widespread.
It will be up to Senate MP Elizabeth MacDonough to decide to what extent Democrats can stretch the reconciliation process.
Republicans won a landslide victory in February when MacDonough ruled that Democrats could not include language in the $ 1.9 trillion Biden bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 in 2025.
Republicans say they have a strong argument for ending a section of Biden’s plan asking Congress to approve the Law for the Protection of the Right to Organize (PRO), which would curb state laws on the right to work and penalize employers who interfere in trade union movements.
Biden’s proposal would also make Congress link federal investments in clean energy and infrastructure to requirements that employers pay current wages and that investments in transportation meet existing labor protections in transit.
The White House argues that increased unionization will drive economic growth by improving productivity.
But Republicans say measures like the PRO Act equate to changes in labor policy that affect Byrd’s rule because any change in spending or revenue it produces is incidental.
“It’s almost a no-brainer from my perspective: that wouldn’t approve of the Byrd rule provision,” said Bill Hoagland, senior vice president of the Center for Bipartisan Policy and former Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. “It’s certainly important to the president, to his agenda, but it’s merely incidental from a fiscal policy perspective.”
Hoagland also raised concerns about language in Biden’s plan that would give welfare workers higher pay and better benefits through “the opportunity to organize or join a union and bargain collectively.” .
An infrastructure package supply would expand access to long-term care services under Medicaid, giving low-income people more opportunities to receive care at home. Republican critics warn that this would significantly expand Medicaid authority.
Another aspect of Biden’s proposal that could have problems with the parliamentarian is the call to “eliminate policies of exclusion from zoning and land use.”
Biden’s team argues that “exclusive zoning laws,” such as minimum lot size, mandatory parking requirements, and multi-family housing bans, have caused housing prices to rise and “ families locked out of areas with more opportunities “.
Hoagland said these regulatory measures should be removed from any conciliation package.
“Unions, unionization, the provision related to regulations for the approval of red lines and all the other things that are there would not be admissible,” he said, referring to the language covered by caregivers and exclusive zoning. . “Anything that relates to regulatory activity would not be appropriate either.”
A warning to predict how the parliamentarian might govern is that lawmakers have not yet drafted the legislative language. The White House has only published a detailed file.
Some democratic policy experts agree that strengthening the language of union negotiations with employers seems to conflict with Senate rules governing what can be included in a reconciliation package.
“The Pro Act doesn’t fit budget reconciliation,” a former Democratic aide to the Senate said.
“It will not have a fiscal impact and therefore without any fiscal impact, it will be affected in a Byrd bathing situation,” the former aide said, referring to the process where Democratic and Republican aides present arguments to lawmakers about what it should be included in a conciliation package.
His. Sherrod Brown
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“It’s still not clear,” he added. “It’s a big priority for many of us.”
His. Shelley Moore Understood
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Specifically, Capito noted that Congress’ authorization for road and traffic funding will expire Sept. 30 and raise questions about whether Congress can use budget reconciliation to expand traffic and highway programs or spend money on authorized programs. expired or without authorization.
“My inclination is that part of what the president wants to propose has not been authorized and you have problems with the Byrd Rule, whether you are appropriating an unauthorized program,” said Capito, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“I don’t know if they can approve a full bill through conciliation,” he said.
Hoagland, the former staff director on the Budget Committee, said Congress addressed this issue earlier this year by combining authorizations and direct-spending endowments on the $ 1.9 trillion relief bill.
But Hoagland warned that the alternative solution was considered a unique exception to avoid undermining the authority of Senate and House supply committees.
Whip of the Senate majority Dick Durbin
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“Last year, the Senate Credit Committee disappeared. No budget resolution … no subcommittee hearings, no full committee hearings, “he said.” We start at a very low point in terms of what has happened to the Senate Appropriations Committee. “