Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I can ask! This is a boring (but relevant) process piece - if I’m not mistaken, the way this came to the floor was unusual. The rushed process prevented people from proposing constructive amendments, so part of it is up to the original authors being open to that. GOP controls floor and that’s why the process piece is relevant. How things get to the floor is a huge part of if they can get a successful vote in the first place and if they can come back again. If this bill was eligible to be filed as something known as a privileged resolution, then you can bypass the speaker and bring it to the floor to trigger an immediate vote. If that was the case here then the answer is yes, especially if the original authors are open. There is a very small class of bills eligible to be filed this way, which is why you don’t see it happen often. I need to check if that’s what happened here. If so, then it’s much easier to fix and bring again if the authors agree. If not, then you need GOP leadership’s agreement to bring it to the floor. Which is still doable - if they already brought it once, then there’s hope they’d bring it again if they want to do it right. This is the kind of thing that would greatly benefit from bipartisan authorship (which there absolutely is appetite for!) to pass.