어제 저녁 업데이트. 이걸 보면 대충 타임라인이 어떻게 될지 보이지요?
그냥 올리면 상원에서 60표가 필요하므로, 공화당 의원 10명을 설득하기 위한 시간이 점점 길어지자, 민주당 상원의원 50명 + VP로 통과 가능한 형식으로 시작을 한겁니다. 이렇게 한다면 가장 빠른 하원 통과가 2/23입니다. 즉, 절차상 최고로 빨리 되면 2월 말이라는 야기입니다. 다시 말하지만, 이것은 민주당 단독 통과를 시도할 경우입니다.
House Passes Budget to Set up Stimulus Fast Track (6:03 p.m.)
The House passed a fiscal 2021 budget resolution on a 218 to 212 vote, easing the path for passing legislation based on Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan with just Democratic votes.
The Senate plans to follow suit, passing an identical version of the budget later this week; the upper chamber on Tuesday voted along party lines to begin debate on that budget resolution.
Congressional committees will then have until Feb. 16 to craft a bill according to instructions in the budget and the House could vote on it as soon as Feb. 23. That bill will be able to pass the Senate with just 50 votes plus a vice presidential tie-breaker, rather than the usual 60 votes that would require Republican cooperation.
“We have the plan and the ability to do this. And, thankfully, we can also afford to do it. Interest rates and inflation are at historic lows — lower today than even before the pandemic — and the return on smart investments in the economy have never been higher,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, said on the House floor.