The Senate parliamentarian had just found two small violations of the reconciliation rules, meaning that in the morning, despite the Democrats' efforts, the bill would go back to the House for another vote.
As the chair of the House budget committee, he shepherded a bill through the House that defunded Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process, meaning Senate Democrats had no opportunity to filibuster the bill.
The bill was passed using reconciliation -- meaning it wasn't subject to a Democratic filibuster -- and received the support of 58 Senators.
In a new film, "How I Killed My Father," which opened on Friday in New York, the French director Anne Fontaine challenges the meaning of reconciliation.
It is the continuation of Haiti's tradition of impunity (the veiled meaning of "reconciliation") that has led directly to the convulsed, inconclusive and violent gyrations the country has made in its attempt to move toward democracy since the overthrow of Baby Doc.
This led to the emergence of Focus on Form (FonF) as a reconciliation of form and meaning integration in the course of instruction.
Dignity Therapy employs a narrative approach and contains elements similar to Life Review and reminiscence, with its focus on letting the patient find meaning and reconciliation through examining past experiences and achievements, and making amends with or carry out unfinished business [ 6- 9].
The music has its own understated grandeur and compacted emotional intensity; every phrase is charged with meaning, and the final reconciliation between husband and wife is perfectly judged.
Meaning threats of using reconciliation should be framed as a reaction to Republican obstructionism, at every turn.
Republicans are trying to use the budget reconciliation process to move this legislation, meaning they need only 51 votes in the Senate ― and that includes Vice President Mike Pence's yes vote to break a tie.
