sent it over, she created this massive problem by passing a bill that is not qualified under bird rule. to be considered for reconciliation in the united states senate. that is why she is giving you the gibberish. gibberish is the word. she screwed up. what is the birth bath? to scrub it. to see individually one of issues system break, they put it through the bird bath to see if it qualifies under the bird rule but they have only done it twice. bottom line, it is not passing before christmas. probably into january or february before they can get through this process. what is brilliant about that, thank you so much. you were the perfect person, apart from the horror show of this complete incoherence, this is the third person in line in president see, we have biden
and sahil, meanwhile, senator schumer says he wants the senate to pass a build back better act by christmas. there s a lot of confidence in that timeline? confidence, yes. is there certainty in that timeline? absolutely not. because they have a lot to do before then. and democrats are getting to work on this. the first thing they have to do is amend the house-passed build back better act, to make sure there are 50 votes in the senate. that is likely to mean changes to provisions like guaranteed paid leave, as well as the state and local tax deduction. the next thing they have to do is make sure everything complies with the rules. some provisions, most notably immigration are at risk of running afoul of what s known as the bird rule. making sure that everything is a matter of taxes and spending. and finally, after that, they ll have to go through this vote-a-rama process. and democrats have a very difficult task of keeping all 50 of their senators in line to
and when that noticed comes out, then that is the. and we know we have the votes to get this done. all right and, you said when the senate bill comes back you expected to come back at something different than what you send over there. but you believe that the house will just take it up and pass it. they will not tried to negotiate another version of the bill, a compromised bill, but in the house bill and the senate bill? because this is reconciliation, it s a little bit more complicated than the usual conference process that you mention, where the defendant in the house come in and iron out the differences. so i think because of the senate parliamentarian, because of things like the bird rule, i think we will try to be able to pass but they. do i also just want to tell the american people that just because it s laying over to the senate, just because we re going to have different people working on the bill, doesn t necessarily mean that the bill will not get better. we may see so
between the house bill and the senate bill. well, because this is reconciliation it s a little bit more complicated than the usual conference process that you mentioned where the senate and the house come together and kind of iron out the differences. so i think because of the senate parliamentarian, because of things like the bird rule i think we ll try to pass what they do. i just want to tell the american people just because it s going over to the senate, just because people working on the bill doesn t necessarily mean the bill will not get better. we may see some positive changes. we may see some things they think of and are able to identify and correct. we ve been trying in the house for months and months to anticipate exactly what the senate will accept. i think there are probably things we got wrong. i think there are things the senate is going to be willing to do a bit better or different policymaking than we were. so i m eager to see them do their jobs, step up to the plate
dignity and respect to live in their home as they grow older with a little assistance. there is a lot of things we agree on. to throw everything under the sun, and major policy changes, john, in a bill that no one participates except one party, whether it is a democrat or a republican, and it was never designed, reconciliation was never designed for major policy changes. i sat in bob bird s seat and he put the bird rule in. can i ask you one thing, is there a rule that says republicans can t vote for this? not at all. not at all. but they know when there is no participation you re not going to get either side. the same is we didn t participate in the tax cuts in 2017, john. it was all done with republicans and we, democrats were all against that. don t you think we ought to be able to come to agreement to fix the tax code. i ll come back to the build back better agenda in a moment. i want to stick with the lessons learned from the election if i can. abigail spamburger, from virgi