Democrats want to see a quick conference agreement, but that may be wishful thinking given the number of provisions in the House-passed package that have been opposed by Senate Republicans who are crucial to advancing a further compromise.
“A few days ago, instead of passing the Senate’s careful compromise, House Democrats slapped together a partisan bill stuffed with poison pills and the kinds of things they tried to put in their reckless taxing and spending spree that failed last year,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a Feb. 7 floor speech.
The Senate bill passed June 8 of last year, and the two chambers will now need to reconcile differences through a formal conference or a less formal exercise in legislative pingpong.
Democratic efforts to overhaul election and campaign finance laws have proved futile, owing in part to the opposition of Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., to using the so-called nuclear option to change the Senate rules to impose new limits on the legislative filibuster. But senators are working on efforts to update the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
That’s the law that governs the actual counting of electoral votes, which became fraught on Jan. 6, 2021, with an insurrection by supporters of then-President Donald Trump and Trump supporters in Congress backing meritless election challenges.
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