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And who the fuck is the senate parliamentarian? When the senate parliamentarian stood in the way of Bush’s tax plans, they just fired the senate parliamentarian. It’s about political will.
And if you’re struggling along on $7.50, looking forward to a wage increase and you hear that isn’t going to happen because of the ‘senate parliamentarian’ are you going to think “oh, ok, rules are rules” or are you going to think “WTF is this shit?”
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And who the fuck is the senate parliamentarian?
The person that decides what can and can't be passed under the Senate's Reconciliation process.
When the senate parliamentarian stood in the way of Bush’s tax plans, they just fired the senate parliamentarian.
Not quite true. He was fired for a range of inconsistent and contradictory rulings, i.e not doing his job properly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/08/us/rules-keeper-is-dismissed-by-senate-official-says.html
And if you’re struggling along on $7.50, looking forward to a wage increase and you hear that isn’t going to happen because of the ‘senate parliamentarian’ are you going to think “oh, ok, rules are rules” or are you going to think “WTF is this shit?”
Thats not the case is it? Nobody is saying its not happening. Its just that its literally against the rules of the house to pass it under emergency legislation using the reconciliation process.
Call me old fashioned, but I consider pushing through legislation using illegal methods to be a slippery slope no matter how important the legislation is.
They'll do it. They have big industry backing (Amazon for one). They just can't do it as part of the emergency stimulus package.
Stonehedge
Is it a democrat decision to not include the $15 push in the Covid relief bill? I thought it was the Senate Parliamentarian that made the call. The SP is non partisan.
My understanding is that this is just a disagreement about which bill it is included with and how the bill is voted on rather than abandoning the goal.
As far as I can tell, the only people who have opposed raising the minimum wage to $15 are the Republicans.
Edit: The argument appears to be that you can't use the "reconcilliation method" of passing emergency legislation to push through major legislative change. Something to do with major leigslative change requiring a super majority rather than a simple majority.