House bill that should get immediate vote:

[Sogo]

A group of Dem Representatives introduced a bill to increase the size of the Supreme Court.

Get that passed and with us holding only the Senate next term, fill the additional four seats with the Dem Senate, simple majority....


IMHO.

[Polybius]

1. How can it pass the Senate?

The filibuster is in place.

[brooklynite]

2. I'm not sure there's even a majority of Democrats who support that.

President Biden certainly doesn't.

[Sogo]

3. Has anyone asked Biden lately?

Somehow I think he may come around on it.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. How do you break the filibuster? n/t

[Polybius]

6. He just said right after Dobbs that he opposes SC expansion

But I do think that you're right, if it got to his desk he'd sign it. The problem is how can it get there. Any ideas?

[Elessar Zappa]

7. If a bill came to his desk

I think he’d sign it.

[Polybius]

9. But how could it come to his desk?

Even if we eliminated the filibuster today, do we have 50 Senators to support SC expansion? I doubt Manchin would get on board, and surely no Republican will.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. Not to mention

that we can't even get rid of the filibuster at this point.

[Elessar Zappa]

15. I'm not saying we have the necessary support.

I’m just saying that if we did, I believe Biden would be on board.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. Filibuster would stop this

I think it's more than just Manchin & Sinema that are against this...the President certainly hasn't pushed for it.

[onenote]

13. The bill has only two co-sponsors in the Senate.

And an identical bill in the House has only 59 (out of 220) Democrats as co-sponsors. Both bills were introduced 18 months ago and neither has received a hearing.

That should tell you something about the prospects for these bills getting "an immediate vote" during the lame duck session. And as been pointed out, when the 117th Congress adjourns in January, these bills die.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. Yep

I think this is a non-starter, IMO.

[republianmushroom]

8. Do it, just do it

[onenote]

11. It's not going to get an "immediate" vote. It may not even get a hearing.

Two identical bills -- one in the House and one in the Senate --were introduced in April 2021 to increase the size of the Court by four justices. In eighteen months time, the Senate bill has attracted exactly one co-sponsor. The House bill has 59 (out of 220 Democrats) as co-sponsors. Neither has had a hearing since being introduced.

Don't hold your breath to see any action at all on either of these bills during the upcoming "lame duck" session. And as has been noted, when Congress adjourns, these bills will die.

[MichMan]

12. Bills don't carry over past the inauguration of a new congress

The House can't pass it now and have the new Senate pass it later.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

14. Exactly n/t

[Amishman]

17. Want to know why we haven't seen any momentum on bills like this? We don't have the votes

Holding a chamber with a tiny margin does not equal the ability to pass anything we want.

Given our difficulty getting votes for something a Build Back Better, I'm rather certain something controversial like this is well short of the needed support.

Small, incremental changes are what are possible with such small margins. If we do end up holding onto the House, we all really need to remember this.