General Discussion

It's called the reporters' lack of Civics 101. And since I post so much LBN, I have seen their crap and skew.

I think I saw a couple actually cite Rand Paul saying it would probably take 5 days, and he's probably right, assuming the Senate is allowed to vote on amendments (and then do a whole "vote-a-thon", and then it goes to the House for consideration.

Of course it does. It's the old "Bill on Capitol Hill"! Even if they reconcile it, they STILL have to vote.

They could try to expedite it by doing a "unanimous consent" and if someone (only need one person) "objects", then the "regular order" needs to happen with a Rules Committee thing before the debate and a vote. They could also try to pull off a "voice vote" and try to screw with the audible "yays and nays", but inevitably, someone will put forward a motion for "a recorded vote (by electronic device)".

I watched the nightmare of this sort of thing with the ACA back in 2009 & 2010 on CSPAN & CSPAN2 - the Joint Conference Committees to reconcile versions of stuff coming out of the Committees in each chamber, the votes and revotes as stuff changed, etc. There something like 6 Committees in each chamber that included stuff into the ACA.

(ETA - I don't think those (D) Senators agreed to a Nov. 21st C.R. and then do another one until Jan. 30 - I think their focus was on those 3 Appropriations bills - one of which - Agriculture - includes the appropriations for the FARM bill that has expired including SNAP - and that Farm Bill is ANOTHER THING that has lapsed, and I expect an extension of that would be on one of the C.R.s).