Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Last fall, congressional Republicans said they were so desperate to deal with U.S./Mexico border policies that they took a radical step: GOP officials said that unless Democrats agreed to a series of conservative reforms, Republicans were prepared to let Russia take part of eastern Europe by force. Democrats, left with little choice, agreed to pay the GOP’s ransom and endorsed a conservative, bipartisan compromise.
It’s not that they’ve lost confidence in their own bill, but rather, Lankford and Sinema said they saw this second effort as election-year symbolism, rather than a serious attempt at policymaking. That’s not an entirely unreasonable point. Everyone involved in the process, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, knew with certainty that the bill wouldn’t come close to receiving support from 60 members in this procedural vote.
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