As Democrats try to guide their colossal social spending plan through rounds of intraparty and bicameral fights, they must also mind the Senate’s rules referee — who has the power to strip out a handful of their biggest priorities
. The Senate Budget Committee declined to comment about their strategy for winning those go-aheads.
Proponents of the measure argue that there’s precedent for including new fines in a bill passed using reconciliation, including a 1993 budget bill that allowed a penalty on cigarette manufacturers that imported too much tobacco. More recently, the parliamentarian allowed Republicans to defang the insurance mandate in the“They went from something to nothing,” said David Madland, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. “If you did that you could do the opposite.
Democrats are committed to passing legislation this year to curb prescription drug prices. | AP Photo/Elise Amendola “That would be extremely worrisome,” said Rep. Peter Welch , a House leader of the push, in an interview. “Our private employers and their workers currently pay through the nose for health care, so we really need to succeed in lowering drug prices not just for Medicare but for the private sector as well.”that the federal government subsidizes private plans, so anything that lowers overall costs would save taxpayer dollars.
Democrats are confident about the parliamentary survival of the clean electricity program, which was specifically developed to comply with budget rules. Ancommissioned by two environmental groups found the policy would add 7.7 million new jobs and add nearly $1 trillion to the economy by 2031.
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