Pelosi cuts deal with Problem Solvers on House rules overhaul

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has cut a deal with a small group of Democrats calling for major rules changes next year, according to two Democratic sources familiar with the discussions.

“It’s a done deal,” said one aide.

Nine Democrats in the bipartisan, 48-member Problem Solvers Caucus had vowed to withhold their support for Pelosi — or any other Speaker nominee — unless the candidate commits, in writing, to certain changes in House rules aimed at empowering rank-and-file lawmakers and breaking partisan gridlock.

Unveiled earlier in the year, the group’s rules package consists of 10 proposals designed to ease the passage of popular bipartisan bills that, in recent years, have frequently been ignored.

Read more: https://itk.thehill.com/homenews/house/418696-pelosi-cuts-deal-with-problem-solvers-on-house-rules-overhaul

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Remember what I said on Monday?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211473593

[bearsfootball516]

1. She gets shit done. That's why Republicans are so terrified of her.

I can't wait for the first picture of her holding the gavel in January.

[Just a Weirdo]

2. She better not have agreed to the tax shit idea of the PSC..

That would be a big fucking mistake, and a reason not to vote for Pelosi as a Speaker.

[brooklynite]

3. The demand was never on policy matters...

It was on rules regarding bringing Bills and amendments up for votes.

[The Liberal Lion]

4. These "Problem Solvers" sicken me

Given the size of the democratic victory in the House there is ZERO reason to concede one inch of ground to "BIPARTISANSHIP". Bipartisanship with post-Obama republicans is a farce. Republicans give nothing and democrats give up the farm. I will be curious to see how Nancy manages this. I have called for the replacement of Nancy in the past, but her strategy won, so I support her Speakership. However, the notion of bipartisanship with those nazis is incomprehensible. How much better it is to die standing than to live bowing.

[Power 2 the People]

5. +1

[BaronChocula]

6. Holding my breath

waiting for goppers to thank Dems for being the ones to move "bipartisanship" forward. I'm turning blue. I'm passed out. I'm dead.

[watoos]

7. Really,

Dems need to look up the definition of "mandate."

[George II]

8. "Problem Solved", perhaps more problems created.

[brooklynite]

9. Details

[Apollyonus]

10. Those rules seem to be written to give power to the Republicans

and they will be abolished as soon as the Republicans take the house again -- hopefully that will not happen any time soon.

[MrsCoffee]

11. "It's unclear which of the rule changes the sides have agreed to."

They wanted her to accept at least 3 of the 10 demands.

The problem solvers are not.