Comment on It's all a game for them and we are always the losers

• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Honestly, I have no idea how this works. I even tried reading their explainer on the legislative process and it didn’t even seem to answer the question of whether a committee has the power to dismiss a proposal outright or whether a formal house vote is required for that.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As I understand it, nothing is dismissed, it’s either approved or it’s ‘left to die in committee’ because anything that doesn’t make it out of committee by the end of session it dies and just be re submitted to the committee next session.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Okay, well it looks like the bill was re-introduced this year so perhaps it’s not dead yet:

      …senate.gov/hawley-advances-pelosi-act-to-ban-con…

      alford.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Documen…

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