A President Bernie Sanders isn't going to let something as trivial as the Senate rules thwart his drive to pass Medicare for All
A President Bernie Sanders isn’t going to let something as trivial as the Senate rules thwart his drive to pass Medicare for All.
The Vermont independent, one of the top-tier contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been skeptical of getting rid of the legislative filibuster to pass a sweeping legislative agenda. Instead, Sanders is taking a from Sen. Ted Cruz , who wanted to shred Senate rules in order to pass ambitious GOP health care legislation in 2017.Sanders has settled on budget reconciliation as his solution for evading the Senate’s 60-vote requirement, a blunt maneuver that allows certain spending bills to pass the Senate with a 50-vote majority. Most senators believe that sweeping legislation like Medicare for All would not be allowed under reconciliation, but Sanders said he’s not going to let that stop him.
“It is the vice president who determines what is and is not permissible under budget reconciliation. I can tell you that a vice president in a Bernie Sanders administration will determine that Medicare for All can pass through the Senate under reconciliation and is not in violation of the rules,” Sanders said in a statement after introducing the bill on Wednesday.
The move smacks of Cruz’s request from two years ago, when he argued the Senate GOP should disregard parliamentary guidance and jam through a full repeal-and-replacement of Obamacare in reconciliation. Cruz argued that Vice President Mike Pence should have ruled that the full gutting of Obamacare could pass via Senate rules, a move that GOP leaders rejected.
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