Sentence examples for expedited budget from inspiring English sources
Another centrist Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, said Thursday that he, too, would oppose use of the expedited budget procedure.
House Democrats predicted that packaging the two proposals in an expedited budget reconciliation bill would help them secure the needed votes on health care because the financial aid bill is popular.
But absent some dramatic turnabout by Republicans, Democratic leaders will have only one other possible path — approving changes to the Senate bill by attaching them to an expedited budget measure, precluding a Republican filibuster in the Senate.
Democrats are aiming for a vote by the weekend that would approve both the bill that the Senate adopted on Dec. 24 and a package of changes in an expedited budget reconciliation bill.
The deal would bundle the bill into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote.
But Democrats in the Senate, where the private student lending industry has strong allies, predicted on Wednesday night that the education bill would not be part of an expedited budget measure containing the final revisions to the health care legislation.
For the bill to be able to be considered by the Senate under the rules of "reconciliation" — a process created to expedite budget considerations without subjecting them to the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority of other bills — the legislation has to offer a net reduction in the federal deficit.
He also said that he hopes to simplify the city budget document and expedite the budget approval process.
The Legislature, deadline in mind, even expedited its schedule of budget hearings.
It needs a bigger budget to expedite them.
