House GOP leaders had a brief scare last week when they had to go back and fix several pages in their mammoth budget ...

Republicans in the House and Senate have their eyes on a special budget tool called reconciliation — a complicated process that enables them to avoid a filibuster in the Senate. The only catch ...

The benefit of the budget reconciliation process is that the threshold to end debate in the Senate is lower, allowing Republicans to defeat the legislative filibuster with just their conference's ...

The most well-known of these paths is a “privileged” process called budget reconciliation.

On the Senate floor today, Senator Jeff Merkley calls out his GOP colleagues for misusing legislative policies in the Congressional Budget Act to undermine the reconciliation process.

But the two chambers must adopt the same budget plan to move forward with the budget reconciliation process — a complicated maneuver that allows Congress to bypass the 60-vote threshold ...

Thompson said his basic goal hasn’t changed: to use the reconciliation process to help advance a long-overdue five-year farm bill. The farm bill, which expired in 2023 and has been extended ...

House and Senate committees can work separately on the process and pass separate reconciliation bills in each chamber before going to conference, where they negotiate the final version of the measure.

The process is called budget reconciliation and has been used by both parties for decades. It allows measures that affect government revenues to pass the Senate on a simple majority vote ...

This bill does carry the force of law and is advanced under what’s known as the “reconciliation” process, often referred to as a reconciliation bill. This process typically takes months.

Passing legislation via the reconciliation process would require a simple majority in both chambers of Congress, meaning Republicans would not require any Democratic support, but everything ...