captain red dog wrote:I know it happens here too, but why are measures always tucked into other legislation? For example, why isn't the insulin option a separate vote that's pushed through the senate? Is it to do with the time it would take to get it onto the legislative books?
That insulin vote alone should be pretty easy to get through with the working majority if it was pushed through the same as the IRA bill surely?
Measures are tacked onto existing bills normally because it takes so long to approve a bill. Specifically for a reconciliation bill, it can pass with a majority only. So you would want to cram as much as you can in a reconciliation bill.
Any other bill needs 60 votes to break a filibuster.