“We think we’ve got a good bill. They think they can make it better,” Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said of the Senate. “Let them go at it. And they make it better. And we will accept better.”
would not affect his thinking. A number of provisions sought by Biden, including free community college and more aggressive efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, were already sliced from the bill to appease Manchin, who has also said he opposes a family leave program that was passed as part of the House package.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., has also not said she will vote for a version of the bill close to what the House just passed.
Due to objections from Manchin, Sinema and centrists in the House, the original $3.5 trillion spending proposal saw its size nearly cut in half.found that the smaller bill was less popular than the larger one, but that many of the provisions within it were broadly popular with most Americans.If the Senate indeed passes a modified version of the bill, it would then need approval again in the House, a delicate process for Pelosi with a thin majority and a wide array of ideological factions.
“This [bill] is pretty much it,” Pallone added. “There may be some additional changes, but in terms of paying for it and in terms of the actual substantive authorizing language, we’re pretty solid at this point and there’s no reason why this bill couldn’t pretty much come back from the Senate with some minor changes, nothing major, in my opinion.”
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina at a news conference following the passage of the Build Back Better Act on Friday.
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