Schumer finds loophole to advance elections reform package

[Elderberry]

Axios by Alayna Treene 1/12/2022

Democratic leaders have found a mechanism to enable them to bypass an initial Republican filibuster and debate the party's sweeping election reform bills, according to a new leadership memo obtained by Axios.

Why it matters: The strategy is the latest example of how Democrats are seeking new ways to try to bypass Senate procedures that are blocking their agenda. But the ultimate outcome will likely be the same: insufficient support to change the 60-vote threshold needed to pass sweeping voting rights reforms.

Driving the news: The House is expected to take up an amendment in the coming days related to NASA leasing “underutilized” property to private groups. Democratic leaders are referring to this as the "shell bill."

•   It will then strip that legislation of its existing language and replace it with the text for the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

•   The House would then pass the updated bill and send it to the Senate as a "message." Then, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will file a motion to concur with the House amendment.

More: https://www.axios.com/schumer-loophole-elections-reform-fa66e1d0-8e1d-4b05-96a2-ffdfa650a068.html

[Wingnut]

Axios.  Bitch please.

[Killer Clouds]

If these bills are legitimately legal and good for the country why does the DCP have to play games to get them passed?

[Free Vulcan]

If these bills are legitimately legal and good for the country why does the DCP have to play games to get them passed?

Because they are desperately trying not to get left behind by the globalist Great Reset train.

[Hoodat]

I think I know where Schumer found this loophole.

[Elderberry]

NASA leasing bill transformed into voting rights legislation

Space News by Jeff Foust — January 14, 2022

https://spacenews.com/nasa-leasing-bill-transformed-into-voting-rights-legislation/

NASA’s ability to lease property at its facilities to companies or other organizations remains in limbo after a bill meant to reauthorize it was transformed in the House into voting rights legislation.

H.R. 5746 was introduced in October by Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), chair of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. The bill extended NASA’s authorization to enter into what are known as enhanced use leases, or EULs, of agency property to companies, government agencies, or educational institutions, for 10 years. The House passed the bill by a voice vote Dec. 8.

The Senate amended the bill, extending the EUL authorization by only three months instead of 10 years, and passed it by unanimous consent, sending it back to the House.

The Democratic leadership of the House, in an unusual move, then took the Senate-amended bill and stripped out the NASA provisions, replacing it with the text of two voting rights bills and now called the “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.” They did so because H.R. 5746 had already passed the House and Senate, so the amended version could go directly to the Senate floor without the threat of a filibuster from Senate Republicans, who oppose the voting rights legislation.

More at link.

[GtHawk]

I think I know where Schumer found this loophole.

No Chuck, Nancy said find a loophole, loophole not poophole!

[Kamaji]

Shell bills and other sorts of parliamentary nonsense should be prohibited.