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Marvinville wrote:

The vote will continue as a majority of the Senators have voted. The amendment could have been proposed during the debate stage.

I don't really want to rehash what I said on discord in the #senate channel, but to recap:

>Most senators approve of the bill but are concerned with the definition of adequate consensus, understandably fearing it could leave chambers open to abuse from a majority which speeds through legislation way too quickly.

>Less than 24 hours had passed from the time the debate period was started and concluded, which isn't exactly a great deal of time especially given that everyone here has a real life to contend with.

>You want the house to amend it and send it back to us. This will waste the house's time and our own time.
-->It wastes the house's time because it would have to vote to amend the bill, send it back to us, then pass it again, this time into law.
-->The house is already tight for time - its docket is huge and it has barely over a month until it has to close down for the midterms again. It isn't fair to ask the house to do this for us when we can do it ourselves by sparing a couple of hours.
-->It wastes our time by passing it now and waiting for it to come back to us - which no one wants to do.

There isn't any good reason to go ahead with the vote right now when the bill can be very very easily amended into a better form which will pass Congress more smoothly. Going ahead with the vote imo is not a good judgement call.

Edit: this post was longer than I initially intended it to be lol