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In a very partisan vote that will not survive the Senate. Apart from virtue signalling, why bother? We are post election, so it doesn't even help us decide how to vote.

Trying this after January at least might've made more sense.

It's frustrating we see full House votes on pointless partisan efforts when there are issues like infrastructure that both parties could and should agree on and progress in.

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Pretty sure they're doing this to entice people to vote in the Georgia runoffs so Dems will control the Senate. "Vote for us and we can make this law."

This right here. It's literally this right here. So in other words, it's not pointless, it's political tactic. A good tactic to entice unlikely voters to vote Democrat.

I suppose this is reasonable, but then, why'd they wait until after the general?

Multiple reasons, depending on your level of cynicism. Least cynical is that there were competing priorities in the general and the current President was (is) an overall distraction from any policy discussions. Most cynical is that Dems don't actually like winning because it gives them somebody to blame. Both are corporatist parties that don't generally work for the majority of people. But, like I said, that's the cynical take!

In this case the virtue signalling has the potential of motivating voters to flip the senate via the Georgia runoffs or else in 2022.

> It's frustrating we see full House votes on pointless partisan efforts when there are issues like infrastructure that both parties could and should agree on and progress in.

The House passed a big infrastructure bill in July. They've also already passed several other bipartisan bills.

These mostly just die in the Senate because McConnell does not even allow them to come to a vote. His Senate is mostly focused on confirming judges.

There are literally hundreds of bills that have passed the House that are completely stalled in the Senate.

I like it when politicians virtue signal support for freedoms.

Because it's the right thing to do?

And there is no progress to be made from the House when they are not the road block. Reconsider what you are saying.

> pointless partisan efforts

It may be partisan in terms of federal politics, but this is absolutely not a partisan issue to a huge majority of Americans.

Or the millions who's lives were destroyed by this bullshit. Tell them that it's just about politics.

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