[BostonCard]

Yeah, the House gambit is as helpful as Senate Republicans insisting on $500 billion bailout for corporations with very limited oversight at the discretion of the Treasury Secretary.

But I think between the two bills you can craft a compromise that includes the most critical portions.

I agree most of the provisions are just stuffing in wishlist items; however, vote-by-mail provisions make sense now, since there is a lag time for setting these things up and you want to have them in place if the coronavirus is still an ongoing problem in November.

BC

---

The way it's suppose to work is both houses pass their own bills and then a conference committee works out the differences. The House will pass its bill, and the Senate won't have one, which will mean the Senate passes the House bill or nothing.  Politics is a rough sport, and it's never a good idea to treat the other side without respect, because you never know when the bill comes due.

Neither party controls all the levers of government, which means neither party will get everything it wants.  But also, both sides recognize that a broad bill to keep the economy from cratering has to pass.  In the end, the two parties broadly agree about the core of the bill, but each side is going to try to use the fact that it is a "must pass" bill to pass other stuff they want to pass.  My prediction is that after all the Sturm und Drang, a bill will pass, and it will broadly have everything both parties agree it needs to have, and a little bit of pet stuff for each party.  That's the way the sausage is made.

BC

[BostonCard]

Yeah, the House gambit is as helpful as Senate Republicans insisting on $500 billion bailout for corporations with very limited oversight at the discretion of the Treasury Secretary.

But I think between the two bills you can craft a compromise that includes the most critical portions.

I agree most of the provisions are just stuffing in wishlist items; however, vote-by-mail provisions make sense now, since there is a lag time for setting these things up and you want to have them in place if the coronavirus is still an ongoing problem in November.

BC

---

The way it's suppose to work is both houses pass their own bills and then a conference committee works out the differences. The House will pass its bill, and the Senate won't have one, which will mean the Senate passes the House bill or nothing.  Politics is a rough sport, and it's never a good idea to treat the other side without respect, because you never know when the bill comes due.

Neither party controls all the levers of government, which means neither party will get everything it wants.  But also, both sides recognize that a broad bill to keep the economy from cratering has to pass.  In the end, the two parties broadly agree about the core of the bill, but each side is going to try to use the fact that it is a "must pass" bill to pass other stuff they want to pass.  My prediction is that after all the Sturm und Drang, a bill will pass, and it will broadly have everything both parties agree it needs to have, and a little bit of pet stuff for each party.  That's the way the sausage is made.

BC