Sentences with phrase «senate budget reconciliation»

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The president and the AHCA's supporters in Congress claim that they can not eliminate the mandates under the constraints of «budget reconciliation» procedures required to pass the bill in the Senate.

Passing that version of the budget kicked off the reconciliation process, allowing the Senate to pass legislation with a simple majority.

To pass the AHCA in the Senate, the Republicans need to deploy «reconciliation,» an expedited budget process that requires just 50 votes, instead of the 60 needed to prevent a filibuster.

The Senate must pass the Graham - Cassidy healthcare bill by September 30 under budget reconciliation, the process that would allow it to pass with a simple majority.

Republicans want to use a procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass eventual tax legislation, which allows passage with a simple majority in the 100 - seat Senate.

Under the Senate's «budget reconciliation» rules, the tax legislation can increase the federal deficit by $ 1.5 trillion over the next 10 years — and not a dollar more.

Republicans could try to use the budget reconciliation process, which requires only a simply majority in the Senate, to make changes to Dodd - Frank regulations that affect federal spending and taxes.

The House budget's reconciliation instructions would reduce deficits; the Senate budget's would increase them.

With a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their plan.

What's more, a deficit - increasing bill can rely on the reconciliation process — the process that allows a simple majority vote in the Senate — only if it does not raise deficits in years after the 10 - year budget window, which means the tax breaks here would have to be temporary.

Needless to say, the House budget is much more fiscally responsible on reconciliation than the Senate because it actually requires action on legislation reducing the deficit, whereas the Senate budget facilitates legislation increasing the deficit.

The House budget is far more responsible than the Senate budget because its reconciliation instructions would at least move our fiscal situation in the right direction, while the Senate's would take a big step back.

The House budget has reconciliation instructions to achieve just $ 203 billion of its spending cuts while the Senate budget has instructions for just $ 1 billion of cuts.

The tax reform bill they are pushing through the Senate will live and die by a complicated rule — known as the «Byrd Rule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate.

Not only could such a gift to businesses be looked down upon by American voters, but it would also complicate the GOP's plan to pass tax legislation through budget reconciliation, a process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate but brings with it limitations on adding to the deficit beyond the span of a decade.

The Senate bill currently uses several budget gimmicks to try to get around the limits of reconciliation.

It appears to me that for budget purposes, the «reconciliation» process could be used by Senate leadership to pass legislation providing funding, circumventing the anticipated Democratic filibuster to block such legislation.

@PoloHoleSet: I've modified the title to make it more clear that I'm talking about the Senate's budget reconciliation rules, not the House / Senate bill reconciliation process.

The budget resolutions specify funding levels for the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and their 12 subcommittees, establishing various budget totals, allocations, entitlements, and may include reconciliation instructions to designated House or Senate committees.

Note: that this was after Ted Kennedy died and Scott Brown was elected, so the Senate bill was already set in stone, so any changes after he made those remarks would have come in the budget reconciliation bill that was designed to fix the bill.

Budget reconciliation is a method to get around the filibuster in the Senate, but the limitation is that it has to be at least ostensibly related to the bBudget reconciliation is a method to get around the filibuster in the Senate, but the limitation is that it has to be at least ostensibly related to the budgetbudget.

Schumer said he wasn't certain whether the amendment would be allowed by the Senate parliamentarian, who must decide whether each provision of the bill impacts the federal budget before Republicans can pass it through reconciliation, a procedural move that requires only 51 votes.

Opponents of drilling in the coastal plain point to the very vehicle in which Congress is trying to open it up — through the special budget reconciliation process that requires just 51 votes in the Senate — as evidence that through traditional channels they still do not have the political will to drill in the Arctic refuge.

The clock ran out on budget reconciliation for 2017 on September 30, and with it, the possibility of repealing the ACA with a simple majority in the Senate.