{"id":1593384,"date":"2022-08-07T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593384"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T19:49:20","slug":"senate-passes-democrats-health-and-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-democrats-health-and-climate-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Democrats\u2019 Health and Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-passes-democrats-health-and-climate-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate\">Senate<\/a> voted Sunday afternoon to pass the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a>\u2019 sweeping health care and climate bill in a 51\u201350 vote,\u00a0with\u00a0Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated $740 billion package will go to the House now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived,\u201d said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday. \u201cThe Senate is making history. I am confident the Inflation Reduction Act will endure as one of the defining legislative measures of the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senators engaged in a round-the-clock marathon of voting that began Saturday and stretched late into Sunday afternoon. Democrats voted against some three dozen Republican amendments designed to torpedo the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The bill ran into trouble midday over objections to the new 15 percent corporate minimum tax that private equity firms and other industries disliked, forcing last-minute changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will close tax loopholes and it will reduce and reduce the deficit,\u201d Schumer claimed. \u201cIt will help every citizen in this country and make America a much better place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-339 Component-p-0-2-329\">But concerns over objections to the new 15 percent corporate minimum tax on private equity firms and other industries threatened to slow the progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-339 Component-p-0-2-329\">Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota, the second-ranking Republican, was working on an amendment that would strip the tax for certain sectors. He was trying to draw support from Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), two holdouts who have bucked their party before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-339 Component-p-0-2-329\">Thune predicted several more hours of negotiations and debate. \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll have a solution to land the plane,\u201d he told reporters at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans said the measure would undermine an economy that policymakers are struggling to keep from plummeting into recession. They said the bill\u2019s business taxes would hurt job creation and force prices skyward, making it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted Sunday afternoon to pass the Democrats\u2019 sweeping health care and climate bill in a 51\u201350 vote,\u00a0with\u00a0Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. The estimated $740 billion package will go to the House now. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived,\u201d said Senate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}