INFO: Senate HCR legislative schedule/timeline

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 11:46 AM PST

2009/12/17 · 11:46

I am sharing this information without a lot of commentary. There's plenty of other places for that on this site today. I might go so far as to ask that folks try to avoid too much invective and acrimony in the comments but, well, emotions are high on all sides of the debate and I understand that. How does "Just be nice" sound?

After the jump is what I have received as the legislative schedule/timeline put out by Senator Reid for HR 3590 and its iterations.

At some point in the next few days, Reid will file THREE SIMULTANEOUS motions for cloture: one on the Manager's Amendment, one on the Reid Substitute, and one on The Bill.

The Manager's Amendment refers to what will be "the compromise," whatever that will look like coming after the CBO score. The Reid Substitute substitutes a clean version of the bill for the mess that has been produced through this amendment process. The Reid Substitute then becomes The Bill, on which debate must end before there is a final vote.

Debate on each cloture motion will proceed in that order. So here is the best I can offer by way of timeline:

START

Reid files 3 cloture motions.

A day passes for the cloture motions to ripen.

MANAGER'S AMENDMENT

Cloture vote taken on the Manager's Amendment. 60 votes required.

Assuming cloture is invoked, 30 hours of debate on the Manager's Amendment. (This is ordinarily dispensed with but Republicans are obviously going to take advantage of the rules to delay.

Up or down vote on Manager's Amendment.

REID SUBSTITUTE

Cloture vote taken on the Reid Substitute. (Note that this happens IMMEDIATELY after the vote on the Manager's Amendment.) 60 votes required.

Assuming cloture is invoked, 30 hours of debate on the Reid Substitute. (See 4, above.)

Up or down vote on Reid Substitute.

THE BILL

Cloture vote taken on the Bill. (Note that this happens IMMEDIATELY after the vote on the Reid Substitute.) 60 votes required.

Assuming cloture is invoked, 30 hours of debate on The Bill. (See 7, above.)

Up or down vote on The Bill.

3 and 9 are the big ones. 3 being a major test vote on the compromise, and 9 being pretty much the final time this thing can be stopped. This whole process could take as much as 6 days.

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