With just 36 days until the House majority changes hands, the 117th Congress still has a sprawling laundry list of legislative priorities to get done before the new year.
The December agenda includes landmark legislation to codify the rights to gay and interracial marriage and to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Both are awaiting Senate passage and are likely to be green-lit by the Democrat-controlled House — with potentially limited GOP support.cleared another procedural hurdle Monday night after three Republican senators withheld their support until they could secure floor votes on GOP religious freedom amendments.
The bill is still expected to have at least 12 Republican votes — more than is needed to bypass the 60-vote filibuster threshold — with aides in both parties telling Axios that number may grow. The real question is timing: the bill still needs to clear several more votes, though aides say it is still expected to pass by the end of the week."The Republican conference is in total disarray, so it is hard to say they have a strategy here by not committing to a time agreement," one Democratic aide vented to Axios.
Asked if he expected a time agreement to be reached, Senate Minority Whip John Thune said, "I doubt it."The bill has been amended since passing the House in July, meaning it will have to return to the House for another vote. Key House Democrats have told Axios that the addition of language clarifying the bill doesn't infringe upon religious freedom won't prompt any opposition from their side — and it could result in more Republican "yes" votes.
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