Chuck Schumer said everything is on the table (#4427)

      Last night on the Rachel Maddow show Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that everything is on the table as to how to proceed in getting legislation passed. Earlier this year Chuck said the same thing before the Relief package ended up going to the Budget Reconciliation process which only required 51 votes. Now as that process was successful and no republicans voted for it in either chamber of Congress the idea that another Budget Reconciliation could be used to get an infrastructure repair and replacement bill through Congress becomes even more plausible. As well as possibly a carve out of the filibuster process for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act bill that has passed the House already.
     The importance of what Chuck Schumer said last night is that the democratic majority in the Senate is well prepared to advance the Biden administration goals of reimagining our democracy with all 50 senators on board in some fashion. From Joe Manchin of West Virginia to Bernie Sanders of Vermont, they are in agreement that Congress must get the appropriate bills passed and onto the desk of our President. This is a huge change in the rhetoric that had been coming previous when several senators were hesitant to move bills without bipartisan support.
     Putting America first before putting a handful of republican senators first is the correct approach. We have seen that these republican senators do not represent the wishes of their constituents when it comes to health care, voting rights, infrastructure repair and replacement, immigration reform, police reform and assorted other policies that need reimagined. So putting the American populace first is appropriate and passing legislation that addresses our needs instead of a handful of republican senators is now obvious. What the republican party has done is remove itself from serious negotiations by doing nothing but obstruct and divide. That they think that we still need them is becoming obsolete because of their own disrespect of our democracy and disrespect of the power they were given to be fair and just.