But it's a critical document because it provides the procedural protections Democrats need to pass their $3.5 trillion fiscal package later this year on a party-line vote. And the vote-a-rama process offers Republicans an opportunity to get Democrats in tough re-election races on record taking stances that may put them on the spot back home.
Speaking on the floor earlier Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans don’t have the votes in the 50-50 Senate to defeat what he called a “reckless taxing and spending spree” but vowed they will “stand up and be counted.”
“We're going to argue it out right here on the floor at some length,” McConnell said. “Every single senator will be going on record, over and over and over.”
McConnell said Republicans will propose amendments to increase funds for national security, protect small businesses and family farms “from crushing tax hikes,” encourage schools to reopen, “stop the catch and release of COVID-positive illegal immigrants coming into our country,” and to “protect taxpayers from being forced to fund the horrors of abortion.”
As of late morning Tuesday, Republicans had filed 465 amendments for floor consideration, though it's very unlikely all of them will be offered. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said on the floor his side was ready "move quickly and decisively through the amendment process.
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