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U.S. Senate votes on and passes the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022!!! [1]

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Date: 2022-08-07

After a long overnight vote-a-rama, the Senate has voted on and passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the landmark $430 billion bill that will reduce inflation, address climate change, allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices on drugs, and ensure that corporations and wealthy Americans pay their fair share of taxes.

The bill passed 51:50 with VP Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

The House is expected to vote on the bill on Friday and send the bill to the White House for President Biden’s signature.

Yes, we did it!

x The #Senate passed, 51-50 with @VP voting in the affirmative: H.R.5376, FY2022 Budget Reconciliation, as amended. — Senate Press Gallery (@SenatePress) August 7, 2022

Watch the proceedings here. Schumer has the floor now. Thanking his colleagues and staff. Dignified as ever. No spiking the ball. No trashing of his trash-worthy opponents.

x Applause from Dems in the Senate as the bill is about to pass pic.twitter.com/bnF8uQ7Dem — Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) August 7, 2022

Yes, the bill is not perfect, but there is a lot to like about the bill. We did it in spite of the having a 50:50 senate, with two Democratic Senators that like to play spoiler, but who came through nevertheless.. Let’s make sure the electorate understands what the bill will do for them and for the country.

x You’re going to want to check this out:



A new analysis is showing the Inflation Reduction Act will create more than 9 million good jobs over the next decade, most significantly in clean manufacturing and American energy.



Nearly a million jobs a year for a decade! https://t.co/2oqM3XllBn — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 5, 2022

The provision to lower the price of insulin for non-Medicare patients was killed by republicans; it required 60 votes to stay in the bill; let’s make sure voters remember this at the polls.

x If you or someone you know someone who relies on insulin, you should know that Republicans just stripped the $35/month insulin price cap from the Inflation Reduction Act. They just voted AGAINST lower insulin prices. — No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 7, 2022

There is pride and joy and hope around the country (except in MAGA Republican circles, who are probably busy plotting how to use the bill to further fleece their flock).

x Today, Senate Democrats voted to lower the cost of Rx drugs, health insurance, and energy — all while reducing the deficit and making the richest corporations pay their fair share.



I ran to make government work for working families again.



That’s what this bill does — period. — President Biden (@POTUS) August 7, 2022

x Statement by President Biden on Senate passage of the Inflation Reduction Act: pic.twitter.com/Dstk783CNy — The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 7, 2022

x The Inflation Reduction Act that this Senate Democratic Majority has passed will endure as one of the defining legislative feats of the 21st century:



It reduces inflation, lowers costs, creates millions of good-paying jobs, and is the boldest climate package in U.S. history. — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 7, 2022

x Oh yes we did — oh, yes we did!!Fended off dozens of dangerous amendments; pulled an audible to repair the one that went south on us; hung together, and did something REALLY BIG!!! https://t.co/LNt83ikza2 — Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) August 7, 2022

Let’s not forget to remind voters that no republican supported this bill that truly helps the people and the country.

x It’s one of the biggest cost-cutting, prescription-drug price-reducing, deficit busting, climate change tackling bills in history — brought to you by SENATE DEMOCRATS.



Every Republican is voting against it — David Bergstein (@DavidABergstein) August 7, 2022

Live video from Senate floor on YouTube.

As for us, let’s keep our focus on the future, let’s give the bill and Democrats our full-throated support and let’s keep educating the electorate on how Democrats make while Republicans break the country, the economy and the world. We need to win the House and the Senate this November; lot more can done after that. If we lose, there may be no second chance for our Democracy.

Let’s stay united, let us be the wind behind the sails of Democracy.

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