vote from vice president kamala harris. the bill went through some last-minute changes during an overnight vote-a-rama. that process allows senators to suggest amendments to the bill before a final tally. seven democrats, including kyrsten sinema of arizona, voted in favor of a last-minute tax change introduced by republican senator john thoone. the final draft would invest more than $300 billion in the climate reform, the largest in american history. the bill allows medicare to negotiate drug prices for the first time. cutting prescription drug prices for americans 65 and older. it also adds a 15% minimum tax on large corporations. the inflation reduction act will
and that these were amendments presented by others like bernie sanders, trying to put them back into the bill. asking about the vote-a-rama, all these amendments, is this normal, all this independent voting? it is very unusual. you only really see vote-a-rama as they call them, during these massive budget reconciliation package is. we saw one last year when democrats pass the american refuge plan, another democrat-only reconciliation package. and it is a lot. you think it is really interesting about these vote-a-rama is it is a series of unlimited as we see playing right now, most of these moments are from republicans, and their messaging points. democrats, there are dozens of these amendments being put forward. democrats are really help to firm their unity and striking those amendments down. they really seen the messaging talking points, and that is why we suspect the vote-a-rama
issue. it s not like inflation caused them to want to do these things. and they re making the argument that it will help curb inflation. that s their argument about that. some of the economists out there saying, well, maybe not that much. so i don t think this is really aimed at inflation as its primary goal. even if they can make the yard whether they will have some beneficial impact on that. look, walk us through technically what is about to happen tomorrow on the senate and how this vote that is what are we going to expect in this vote-a-rama? vote-a-rama is everybody s least favorite part of the reconciliation process. it takes forever, all sorts of silly and sometimes crazy amendments are introduced. it will basically be hours, and hours of gotcha votes where the republicans will be trying to force the democrats to take the boots that could be used as
sound bites or for political ads, for the upcoming elections. only one vote really matters, and that s one they vote to move the bill as a whole, and they will need just the 50 democrats to do that. but they will have to go through hours, and hours of hell, as lindsey graham said. and they re going to they ll try to tackle on amendments about the border, about crime, about things completely unrelated to the legislation. this happens every time there s a reconciliation bill. nobody likes it, neither party enjoys it. but this is the process. in fact, there is usually an amendment to ban vote-a-rama at the vote-a-rama. so we will probably expect to see that too. nobody likes it, but as far as democrats having the votes lockdown, there is very little slim chance at anything is going to change during the vote-a-rama, isn t that the case? that is correct. now, occasionally, the republicans will put democrats in a weird situation where they will get an amendment or two. and that is what
silly and sometimes crazy amendments are introduced. it will basically be hours, and hours of gotcha votes where the republicans will be trying to force the democrats to take the votes that could be used as soundbites or for political ads for the upcoming elections. only one vote really matters. and that s the vote to remove the bill as a whole. and they will need just a 50 democrats to do that. they will have to go through hours and hours us of hell, as lindsey graham said. and they re going to try to tack on amendments about the border, about crime, about things completely unrelated to the legislation. this happens every time there s a reconciliation bill. nobody likes it, neither party enjoys it. but this is the process. in fact, there is usually an amendment to ban vote-a-rama at the vote-a-rama. so we will probably expect to see that too. nobody likes it, but as far