It doesn't get discussed as such but there's actually what amounts to a talking filibuster embedded in the reconciliation process, as I discuss here. It's the so-called 'vote-o-rama' which just kicked off this morning. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-prism…
2/ The minority party gets to introduce an unlimited number of amendments. In theory they could prevent the passsage of the COVID bill forever. But they don't. Because they get bored and want to go home. I senate vet tells that the majority does have one cudgel. If it starts ...
3/ ridiculous and they're substituting whiches for thats in the text or just shifting dates the chair can decide the process has become "dilatory" - doesn't pass the laugh test delaying tacts - and bring down the hammer. But it never actually happens because the minority's ...
4/ heart isn't quite in it that much. So it still gives us a sense of what would happen if the minority party actually had to **do** something to keep delaying things.
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