• protist
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    7 months ago

    “Unprecedented” lmao what a clickbait hyperbole. Democrats have been wanting to move these bills for months

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      7 months ago

      It’s not literally unprecedented but this is more than voting for a bill. It’s supporting a rule change in committee and presumably on the floor. Rule changes are almost always party line votes. Even in a compromise that requires support from the minority party it’s viewed as the basic responsibility of the majority party.

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        To be clear, nearly every substantial bill in the House only arrives on the floor by passing a custom single-bill rule that was referred out of the rules committee.

        So these normally-party-line rule changes are a routine occurrence in the House. The weird part is that this one went through on a bipartisan vote.

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      Bipartisanship is when a bill is sponsored by both parties. Here, the Republicans wrote a bill and sent it to the floor.