A journey through hot mics, a sleepless night, and plenty of Manchin-Sinema will-they-or-won't-they handwringing.
knew, though, was that Manchin and Schumer patched things up a few days later and kept negotiating. In late July, they shocked Washington by announcing they’d reached a deal including the climate package.
Democrats had operated on the assumption that once they got Manchin’s vote, the rest would fall into place. They were correct. A good week or so was spent fretting about Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Democrats’ other troublesome centrist who was peeved not to have been looped into the Manchin-Schumer negotiations. But Sinema wanted
a climate bill, and would have committed herself to certain primary doom next cycle had she actually gone out and killed the thing. She negotiated a few changes to the bill—some of them good for the public; some of them good for hedge fund managers—and got on board.Progressives, meanwhile, knew that they had little choice this late in the game but to swallow what Schumer and Manchin had cooked up. That didn’t make it easy.
It fell on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, then, to perform a vigil of sorts for the progressive programs fallen by the wayside.To pass a reconciliation bill, the Senate majority doesn’t need to worry about breaking a filibuster. It does, however, need to go through a what’s known informally as “vote-o-rama,” an open-ended series of amendment votes that lasts as long as the minority party can stay awake to cause trouble.
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