DeFazio looks to try again on his progressive transportation agenda - Roll Call

Where once DeFazio condemned the rule, though, He’s now trying to find ways around it.

“The Senate does have discretion, which they seem loathe to use, to just have the chair rule things in order,” he told ACEC. “And then it takes 60 votes to overrule the chair, which turns the filibuster on its head.”

“And ultimately in a good reconciliation bill, if the parliamentarian in a seance with Robert Byrd is saying, you can’t do these things, I’m hopeful that the Senate leadership will have the guts to do that, put [Vice President Kamala] Harris in the chair, have her rule it in order, and then the Republicans are going to have to get 60 votes to overturn her ruling, and they can just go forward with the bill with 50 votes,” DeFazio said.

Earmarks push

He’s also hopeful to use reconciliation to reinstate the 1,475 earmarks, or member-requested projects, included in the House transportation bill. The Senate parliamentarian has traditionally been reluctant to include such projects in reconciliation bills, but DeFazio told ACEC, “We have a couple ideas to get around the dead guy rule.”

But Jeff Davis of the Eno Center said the Byrd rule will also require that every dime of the committee’s $60 billion be spent by Sept. 30, 2031. “Which means that Mr. DeFazio can’t just beef up the high-speed rail or new subway accounts because some of that money would take longer than ten years to spend out, per (the Congressional Budget Office),” he said by email. “It has to go to programs that will spend 100 percent of the money in 10 years.”

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