Reconciliation Process

The INVEST Act and the Senate’s bipartisan deal will lay the groundwork for a future reconciliation bill. Reconciliation is a process that allows legislation to pass without it being subject to the filibuster rule. In the past, Congress has been able to do one reconciliation bill per year. Now, rules have been reinterpreted to allow three reconciliation bills this year.

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Senate Passes Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Budget Blueprint

8/11/21

from The Wall Street Journal,

8/11/21:

Democrats will face difficult choices as they work to transform the budget framework into detailed antipoverty and climate legislation.

The Senate passed a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint early Wednesday, the first step in an arduous process designed to allow Democrats to push through a sweeping package of education, healthcare, climate and other provisions without GOP support. The party line vote, 50-49, came just before 4 a.m., one day after the Senate passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package.

“Senate Democrats have just took a massive step towards restoring the middle class of the 21st century,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said just after the vote.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said the blueprint was “full of reckless taxing and spending.” But Democrats, who have slim margins in both chambers, will face difficult choices and negotiations, as they work to transform the budget framework into detailed legislation.

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