Flashback to July —>
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1417156875473362951
Why is this important? The Senate presiding offer—which VP Harris can become whenever she wants to—has the power to rule in opposition to the parliamentarian and it’d take 60 votes to block the VP. In this case that’s 10 Democrats saying no, immigration should not be included.
Now, to do that would be to effectively go nuclear. If there’s no nonpartisan referee on Byrd rule limits it needn’t exist—the party in power can do whatever it wants by simple majority vote in reconciliation.
Biden-Harris could force that issue but there’s no sign they want to.
Biden-Harris could force that issue but there’s no sign they want to.
And this is where Biden’s complicated history comes into play. He’s a creature of the Senate over 36 years and prides himself on being an institutionalist. Yet that 60-vote rule is claiming scalp after scalp in his agenda and looms over his presidential legacy.
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