This is perhaps the best example of how incompetent and unfit to serve this GOP Congress is.
Congress puts it together and puts it in front of the president to sign. The heat is on the president if he refuses to sign a bipartisan bill.
McConnell wants no responsibility for any bill because of the rift in his own party.
This refusal to vote on bills, especially the ones that are solidly or even likely to pass has to stop. Congress can’t possibly be functional when the bipartisan bills that are sure to pass can’t be even voted on.
Both CHIP and DACA were sure to pass months ago as the stand alone bipartisan bills that they were.
This needs to stop.
Dems need to accrue and keep an updated list of all the bills that McConnell and Ryan refuse to take votes on. They need a brief synopsis and estimate of the support they were likely to receive. Keep it constantly in public visibility and let the load break the camel’s back, as it would be sure to do.
It would be the “Things The GOP Is Keeping From Happening” list.