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The Build Back Better Act, which passed the House on September 27, 2021, was used by the Senate as the legislative vehicle for this legislation. On August 6, 2022 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed an amendment which would replace the text of the previously passed bill with the text of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution of the United States, the vice president of the United States is the ex officio president of the Senate but may only cast a vote in the Senate to break a tie. As of December 5, 2023, vice presidents have cast a total of 301 tie-breaking votes in the Senate. [1]
For the past two years, members of the House Republicans' unruly and narrow majority have repeatedly gotten in their own way, voting against bills backed by their leaders and leaving them to rely ...
The Schumer-Manchin tax bill passed the Senate as part of the Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday. According to legislative documents, the bill will raise taxes and boost the IRS by an estimated $80 ...
The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act on August 7, 2022, on a 51–50 vote, with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris, [80] returning the amended bill to the House. On August 12, the House passed the bill on a 220–207 vote, [ 81 ] and President Biden signed it into law on August 16.
All 50 Republican senators opposed the bill, so Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaking vote. The bill was channeled via the budget reconciliation process, allowing it to pass with a ...
(Republicans now damning the Democrats’ bill as a budget-buster — which it’s not — won't acknowledge this: Their 2017 tax cuts are projected to add as much as $2 trillion to the debt ...
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022, which included allocating billions of dollars towards investments related to renewable energy sources. But the future of such policies remains ...