Moving away from the absolutist approach may signal the administration is simply bowing to legislative realities. There are few paths to passage for the jobs bill, save attaching it to the congressional super committee's set of recommendations. But in the Tuesday briefing, the senior administration officials made clear they would prefer to get some job-creation legislation passed before those committee recommendations come to a vote at the end of December.
But without control of the House, Democrats can't force a vote on a complete American Jobs Act bill, meaning the White House could be looking at either an a la carte menu, or no dinner at all.
Moving away from the absolutist approach may signal the administration is simply bowing to legislative realities. There are few paths to passage for the jobs bill, save attaching it to the congressional super committee's set of recommendations. But in the Tuesday briefing, the senior administration officials made clear they would prefer to get some job-creation legislation passed before those committee recommendations come to a vote at the end of December.
ReplyDeleteBut without control of the House, Democrats can't force a vote on a complete American Jobs Act bill, meaning the White House could be looking at either an a la carte menu, or no dinner at all.