On Wednesday, House Democrats filed a revised version of their Build Back Better (BBB) reconciliation bill with the House Rules Committee and are expected to hold a vote on both the BBB and the $1.2 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Package sometime on Friday. House Democrats’ latest version of their nearly $2 trillion BBB budget reconciliation bill would add paid family and medical leave benefits and other programs dropped from the previous iteration, while trimming the duration of some clean energy incentives.
Links to the revised bill text and a section-by-section summary from the House Budget Committee for the BBB:
- Revised bill text from November 3 (Rules Committee Print 117-18)
- Revised section-by-section summary of the bill (from House Budget Committee)
- Comparison of last week’s bill and this version
If the BBB passes, it will then go onto the Senate where Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough and her staff will scrub it to see if it comports with the Byrd Rule, which controls the reconciliation process. There will be a vote-a-rama with Senate Republicans getting the chance to offer hundreds, maybe thousands of amendments. Then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will work to get it across the finish line for final passage. And after that, it will return to the House once again for a final round of negotiations between House Democrats.