Sentence examples for via reconciliation from inspiring English sources

I just know that the only way I can see it happening (as I wrote in this week's Comment and before that in a blog post or two) is for the House to suck it up and pass the Senate bill, ideally after an agreement with Senate Democrats to patch it up via reconciliation.

The reality is that if the Administration passes significant health-care reform that works that is, it regulates bad behavior by the insurance companies, makes insurance portable, makes it possible for individuals to buy insurance at reasonable rates, and reduces (as a result) the number of the uninsured American voters will not care that it passed via reconciliation.

But it is a poor way to pursue tax reform, since tax cuts are usually assumed to increase the deficit.Obamacare itself was partly passed via reconciliation, and in 2012 the team planning a Romney presidency researched how much of the health law could be unpicked in the same way, recalls Lanhee Chen of Stanford University, Mr Romney's chief policy adviser.

The reality is that if the Administration passes significant health-care reform that works — that is, it regulates bad behavior by the insurance companies, makes insurance portable, makes it possible for individuals to buy insurance at reasonable rates, and reduces (as a result) the number of the uninsured — American voters will not care that it passed via reconciliation.

Matthew Yglesias thinks that in practice, if Republicans want to repeal all the regulations in the ACA via reconciliation, they'll go ahead and do it, and write whatever opinions they need in order to claim that the non-budgetary parts are budgetary because they're integral to the budgetary parts of the bill.

We can argue until we're blue in the face whether the WH could have gotten a bigger stimulus, or at least built into its plans a mechanism to get additional stimulus down the road, say via reconciliation; we can also argue about whether it could have driven a harder bargain with the banks, possibly taking one or two into receivership to encourage the others.

Senate Democrats are willing to push healthcare via the reconciliation process – which prevents the legislation from being filibustered in the Senate – but are unwilling to do the same with climate legislation.

Congress can't just punt this off and focus on 2018 because the repeal of the Affordable Care Act is now tied up with the 2017 budget (via a reconciliation process that was meant to make the task easy).

That bill was supposed to repeal and sort of replace Obamacare before a crucial deadline this weekend, ahead of which just 50 votes would pass the bill via budget reconciliation.

Legislation passed via budget reconciliation must reduce the federal budget deficit, but the revised Better Care Reconciliation Act won't have been analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office before debate begins, and so its effects on the deficit won't be known.

With Obama's health summit behind us, there will now be a mad scramble for Democratic votes in the House and Senate to pursue the strategy that Obama should have used all along -- a Democrats-only bill relying on 51 votes in the Senate via the reconciliation procedure.