Elizabeth MacDonough
Elizabeth Coss MacDonough (born 1966/1967) is a lawyer and the current Parliamentarian of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a reference assistant and editor for the Congressional Record. MacDonough was also at one point an intern for district judge Royce C. Lamberth.
| Elizabeth Coss MacDonough | |||
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| Parliamentarian of the United States Senate From: February 2, 2012 â present | |||
| Predecessor | Alan Frumin | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
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| Party | Independent | ||
U.S. Senate decisions
In 2017, MacDonough ruled against allowing Republicans to include a repeal of the Johnson Amendment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which ultimately passed and was signed into law that year.[1]
In late February 2021, MacDonough removed a fifteen-dollar-per-hour minimum wage hike from a 1.9 trillion-dollar coronavirus "relief bill," noting its violation of budget rules.[2] The decision proved to be a setback for far-leftists.
In September 2021, MacDonough struck out a Senate Democrat proposal to include immigration "reform" in a $3.5 trillion spending bill, noting that the measure was:[3]
| â | ...by any standard a broad, new immigration policy. | â |
References
- â S. 264 (115th): The Free Speech Fairness Act. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
- â Carney, Jordain. Parliamentarian nixes minimum wage hike in coronavirus bill. The Hill. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
- â Carney, Jordain (September 19, 2021.). Senate parliamentarian nixes Democrats' immigration plan. The Hill. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
External links
- Profile at Vermont Law School