When relations improve as they did in the 1930s and the early 1950s the reconciliation can be ebullient.
Next year, reconciliation week will align with two more milestones for Indigenous Australia.
And which party was it, then, audience or Woody, that initiated the 2005 reconciliation that was the critically and commercially successful "Match Point"?
Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation bills were given special Senate protection and allowed to pass by simple majority votes, after limited debate, to let senators make the tough decisions required to cut the deficit.
If at the beginning there was a real fear of further massacres, the policy of "no victors, no vanquished" pursued by Gowon meant that after the eventual surrender in January 1970, reconciliation largely worked.
But as Mr. Gregg pointed out in 2005, reconciliation is already allowed and Republicans have relied on it many times, a point Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, intend to make again and again.
"Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 19 times, by one count.
Unlike rules under regular order, as per the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation cannot be subject to a filibuster.
(He was one of nine Republicans to vote against a January 13 reconciliation bill that was one of the first steps toward ACA repeal).
In the original Congressional Budget Act of 1974, "reconciliation" was an enforcement measure attached to the end of the budget process as a means of forcing rebellious authorizing or appropriations committees to remain within the bounds of the congressional budget resolution.
