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Well, 113 out of the 114 co-sponsors are Democrats, so maybe just a less Republican Congress?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617/cosponsors
This. The issue isn’t “congress” it’s half the body repeating the most regressive ideals among them.
Oh, don’t worry, I’m with you. I’m from Oregon, and I can tell you that the people who represent my interests in the House and Senate are specifically not the problem here. (We do have some bad ones in the east, but not in my district.)
If there aren’t enough republicans to say no, then the democrats will just do it themselves.
I’d consider your point if the Democrats only voted for the bill. Cosponsoring is adding their name in support of the bill’s introduction to Congress in order to weigh on its importance.
I’m sure all 114 would vote in favor of it. I would expect most democrats would vote in favor of it. But the democrats have a pattern where if there needs to be N people to pass something, they’ll only be able to gather N-1 people to support it. That -1 will get attacked in the press and they’ll make a big fuss out of it, but importantly they’ll cause the bill to fail so that the democrats can continue to campaign on that point. See: healthcare, minimum wage