AOC, progressives demand Senate Dem leaders overrule parliamentarian and include amnesty in spending bill
Democrats see reconciliation spending bill as a unique opportunity to pass immigration reform without GOP input
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and some fellow progressive lawmakers joined a group of protesters outside the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to demand that Senate Democratic leaders ignore their chamber's parliamentarian and include a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the reconciliation spending bill.
"The Senate needs to step up, override the parliamentarian, okay. The parliamentarian is not elected. It is not an elected position and the parliamentarian has been overridden and dismissed in the past," Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said to a gathering of about 150 activists.
"We will not surrender our power to an unelected parliamentarian," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Our demand is for the Senate to override the parliamentarian, include a full path to citizenship, and send it back to the House."
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This is because the filibuster threshold on a reconciliation bill is lowered from 60 to 51. Therefore, if Senate Democrats stay united they could completely overhaul the immigration system without any GOP votes.
But the bills passed under reconciliation are also subject to the "Byrd Rule," which bars provisions that do not have a fiscal impact from being included in the bill. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough rules which parts of the bill fall under that rule and must be removed.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-senate-dem-parliamentarian-amnesty-spending-billthis brain dead bimbo is advocating that parliamentary rules of procedures are discarded in favor of the wishes of activists (who by the way are also unelected) despite the fact that the majority of Americans do not favor amnesty.
Despite this being a gross abuse of how business is designed to be done, this sets the democrats up for reciprocal treatment when they get schlonged in the mid terms next year.
Typical behavior of democrats to move the goal posts when they don't like how the game is going...
