Sentences with phrase «senate budget reconciliation bill»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

@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.

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.

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.