on Wednesday elaborated on his plans to pass a “Medicare-for-All” proposal in a sharply divided Congress if he wins the presidency in 2020. A bill passed under those rules is forbidden from increasing the federal deficit outside a 10-year window, for example. Democrats used reconciliation to pass much of Obamacare, and Republicans did so as well to pass their recent tax cuts into law. Sanders also called for reforms to the filibuster by requiring senators to actually speak on the floor in order to filibuster a bill. Currently, a senator can filibuster legislation or a nominee with a simple phone call.

Source: Huffington Post April 10, 2019 23:15 UTC