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For all the advantages, employing reconciliation rules is tricky.
But reconciliation rules prevent changing provisions that do not have any budgetary impact.
Also, under budget reconciliation rules, they must meet goals for reducing future deficits.
That is because, strictly speaking, only financial provisions are supposed to be passed using the budget reconciliation rules.
That escape hatch might include reference to reconciliation rules that might block elements essential to one or more Republicans.
This analysis seems to forget that the original Bush tax cuts were passed under reconciliation rules, which required only a simple majority in the Senate.
And if lawmakers choose, it can establish rules for a later tax-and-spending bill that would operate under "reconciliation" rules, which forbid a Senate filibuster.
The amendments would first be voted on in the House and, if the package passes, in the Senate under reconciliation rules that require only a majority.
As they studied the emerging health policy, Mr. Conrad and others became increasingly dubious that such a complex change could be considered under the tight reconciliation rules.
It takes 60 votes to shut off debate, but under reconciliation rules the Republicans would be unable to use the threat of filibuster to block the legislation.
If they cannot clear the threshold, Democratic strategists believe that their House and Senate majorities can hold under special "reconciliation" rules barring Republican filibusters.
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