CAN DEMOCRATS IGNORE SENATE PARLIAMENTARIANS LIKE REPUBLICANS DID?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 February 2021
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What happened to the Black Lives Matter Anti-fascist who killed a Proud Boy in self defense?
Republicans want to cut welfare because a few people might exploit it. So what! Let them exploit it if that is what it takes. It is worth it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back Tom Hartman here with you, the Parliamentarian of the Senate, a woman by |
| 0:19.5 | the name of Elizabeth McDonough, and I'm not inditing her as it were, but I frankly |
| 0:29.2 | know nothing about her. But she's the one who decides how the rules get interpreted, the |
| 0:34.7 | Senate rules get interpreted. And she has concluded that adding a minimum wage provision to |
| 0:43.4 | the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, this disaster relief bill around COVID, that the Democrats |
| 0:52.9 | are trying to get into the House and Senate would make it unusable for reconciliation could |
| 1:03.3 | not be used to pass it. Reconciliation is a process where you could do it once or twice a year |
| 1:08.3 | in the Senate. It allows you to get around a filibuster, so you don't need 10 Republican votes to |
| 1:14.3 | pass anything. You could just do it with Democrats. And thing is though that her opinion is not binding, |
| 1:22.9 | her opinion is merely an opinion. In fact, when the Republicans were trying to pass legislation by |
| 1:30.0 | reconciliation, and I've got to look up which bill it was that they were trying to pass specifically, |
| 1:36.4 | but the Parliamentarian ruled against them and said you can't do that by reconciliation and they |
| 1:42.6 | fired the Parliamentarian. Literally fired the Parliamentarian, Mitch McConnell, you're out of here |
| 1:49.4 | and put in a new Parliamentarian who said, oh sure, you can do that by reconciliation. |
| 1:55.6 | So the question now is, you know, are the Democrats going to do what Republicans have done? |
| 2:02.0 | And say we're going to ignore the Parliamentarian, we're going to pass this anyway, |
| 2:07.6 | because it's really just a kind of kabuki theater thing. Or are the Democrats going to say |
| 2:13.4 | we're going to end the filibuster because without a filibuster they could pass this legislation |
| 2:17.9 | also. They wouldn't even have to resort to reconciliation. Or are they going to give in? |
| 2:27.6 | Now Nancy Pelosi is saying we're going to keep the $15 minimum wage in the bill. |
| 2:32.5 | Keep in mind, you know, blue states around the country, the minimum wage in Michigan, $9.65 an hour, |
| 2:40.3 | the minimum wage in Vermont, $10.50 an hour, the minimum wage in New York, $11.80 an hour, |
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