The House is set to pass the US manufacturing / semiconductor$$$ / sanctions on China's government bill today.

But as reported in @BGOV this a.m., it's got a ways to go before it gets to Biden ... and possibly a ways to go before House + Senate can hash out differences

🧵 For the House + Senate to get to a FORMAL conference committee, both chambers have to pass the same bill.

That has not happened (the House did not take up the Senate passed bill bc it generated revenue and those bills are supposed to come from the House.)

Now that Schumer has confirmed @BGOV/@bpolitics's scoop from yesterday that a NASA bill will launch voting rights in the Senate, let's break this down because it gets real wonky real fast.

about.bgov.com/news/senate-ru… Think of this as a Trojan Horse.

Voting rights legislation are the Greeks, and the Senate is Troy.

Schumer tried to bring voting rights (Greeks) to the Senate floor (Troy) a few times.

All failed and died during procedural votes (moat around Troy)

SCOOP If Dem’s current plan to pass voting rights fails in the Senate, they’ve got a backup plan to force the issue -

about.bgov.com/news/senate-ru… Lawmakers would use an unrelated bill on NASA as a shell for senators to add voting rights text to.

The NASA bill has already passed the Senate once, so it would easily clear procedural votes that sank other voting rights bills.

BREAKING: House Democrats add six more candidates to their list of Republican districts to flip:

Candace Valenzuela (TX-24)
Amy Kennedy (NJ-2)
Margaret Good (FL-16)
Desiree Tims (OH-10)
Christina Finello (PA-1)
Sima Ladjevardian (TX-2)

bgov.com/core/news/#!/a… A few things:

All of the new ads are women. This brings the total of women on the DCCC's Red-to-Blue list to 26 (there are 30 on the list)