Pursuant to the Official Senate Procedures and Rules for Operation (OSPR), under Article 6: Final Votes, "3.) If a redraft is presented, the original sponsor shall have 96 hours after it is offered to accept the redraft or reject it and request an override".
IIRC, the redraft only goes to a vote if rejected by the sponsor.
Please see my notes here. This procedure would allow the sponsor of any successful bill and the president to conspire to pass a completely different bill, even one the Senate opposes, without it ever coming to a vote; a clear infringement on the Senate’s lawmaking power.
That was absolutely not the intent here. The intent of the bill has not been changed by that revision.
I am not suggesting that this was the intent; merely noting that the rule in question would allow it. In any case, the Senate does need to vote on the final text of the bill; just voting for the same ‘intent’ doesn’t cut it.
