Why would anyone write such an article on something that still has to go through the senate?
I actually had to check how delusional they were, because it wasn't clear, like maybe it started in the senate or this was just a procedural reconciliation for something that had passed in the senate.
Nope it only passed the house, and yep there are 3 months left before all outstanding bills get deleted from consideration.
And with 57% of the House voting for it, this “weird bipartisan coalition” would not be enough for the Senate, if the same distribution of support was mirrored (unlikely, lots of stuff passed the house). You would need 60% of the Senate.
One of the points is that there is a chicken-and-egg issue with antitrust bills, where Schumer was refusing to table discussions because he claimed there was no support. So a clear demonstration of support, even in the other chamber, is a significant and newsworthy change in momentum.
The other (related) point at the bottom is worth reading too. Basically the claim is that big-tech lobbyists were bragging about how they could stomp on even a small and common-sense procedural bill like this one. Instead they “stuck their necks out and got their heads chopped off”. That they had no good arguments and just ran a straight dirt campaign (on both D and R sides!) is a bad look that will be noted by the marginal Congressman.
Thanks, I had skimmed the article looking only for evidence that it had been voted for in the senate as well. That is an interesting wrinkle in how they addressed this.
My main takeaways were that there is a working, bi-partisan majority in the House in support of anti-trust, and this bill sets a precedent for further anti-trust work-- which seems worth publishing about. The big tech lobbying playbooks were interesting to read about too.
> Why would anyone write such an article on something that still has to go through the senate?
Clickbait. I see this all the time, usually a headline about some crazy revolutionary new bill only to find out it either just got passed the house, or hasn’t even got that far.
I actually had to check how delusional they were, because it wasn't clear, like maybe it started in the senate or this was just a procedural reconciliation for something that had passed in the senate.
Nope it only passed the house, and yep there are 3 months left before all outstanding bills get deleted from consideration.
And with 57% of the House voting for it, this “weird bipartisan coalition” would not be enough for the Senate, if the same distribution of support was mirrored (unlikely, lots of stuff passed the house). You would need 60% of the Senate.