Byrd Rules News Today

Baker Donelson's public policy group and the Daschle Group are pleased to provide our fifth update on developments regarding infrastructure and appropriations legislation. This is the...

In all candor last weekend the people who were harassing sinema didnt know what they were talking about. they followed her into the restroom to berate her for not having a path to citizenship in the build back better bill. senate parliamentarian said it cant be done under the byrd rules. the looun particulars who followed her into the ladys room didnt understand it has been agreed to by everybody because its the rules. >> dana: i dont know if you know her personally. everything i understand and ...

AP Photo/Charles Krupa Radicals in Congress are frustrated and angry at President Joe Biden over the Senate parliamentarian’s decision to exclude the minimum wage increase from the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed by the House on Saturday. And the radicals believe it’s only going to get worse. Many of the bills being considered in the House now may never see the light of day in the Senate because of legislative rules that have developed over centuries and were designed to protect t...

He has a rule in reconciliation named after him. the byrd rule. republicans are talking about it a lot these days because what they are pointing out is through the byrd rule and other points of order you can raise in reconciliation, you can have things struck from the bill and in order for the democrats to preserve those things in the bill it requires 60 votes so there are, in effect, many 60-vote thresholds that come up in the course of a reconciliation bill. republicans threaten to push every ...

That the best path forward is where they have the votes. i dont know if they quite know that yet. we are in a place now -- and you will remember this from when it went the first time -- where everybody gets hard line because this is where you maximize negotiating leverage and this is when you cut your deal. >> the senior member of the united states senate, robert byrd, is back in the news. he has a rule in reconciliation named after him, the byrd rule. republicans are talking about it a lot thes...