You are browsing the archive for ping pong.

A Ping-Pong Bill

Mar 25 2010in Featured, News CharlesTags: , , ,
No Comments »

Most legislation that passes the House and Senate goes to a “conference” (here), and then back to each chamber for one more vote. However, the Republicans have threatened to filibuster the appointing of a conference, so the Democrats had to employ a strategy called a ping-pong.  First, on chamber passes the bill. Second, the

Read more