Attention All Reconciliation Commenters
It's clear from all the comments on CG&G and elsewhere that Republican and Democratic commenters are refusing to acknowledge the basic facts about reconciliation. So here are several factual...
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Reconciliation Changes Everything, Especially The Outlook For A Tax Cut
Using reconciliation for health care changes the outlook for what's ahead on other issues too, especially extending the tax cuts put in place during the Bush administration. My column from this...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne Jr. Follows Andrew's Lead
This column by E.J. Dionne, Jr. from yesterday's Washington Post uses a word -- lie -- that Andrew didn't use when he posted on the same subject three days, but otherwise it makes the same points about...
View ArticleThe Definitive Word On Reconciliation
This almost full-page chart (click on the multimedia box) from today's New York Times (way too big to reproduce here) by Congress experts Norm Ornstein, Tom Mann, and Raffaela Wakeman answers virtually...
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Health Care, Not Reconciliation, Is The Issue
My column from this morning's Roll Call explains why reconciliation, a subpart of the congressional budget process, and a sub-subpart of the legislative process, isn't what we should be arguing...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's Latest Budget Bill Shows He's Still A Coward
After a week off for...well, it's not really clear why other than to campaign Congress took the first week in May off...the House and Senate are returning to Washington this week and immediately...
View ArticleGeorge Constanza Budgeting
You remember "Seinfeld," the hit NBC show that proudly was about nothing?If the show was still on the air doing original programs (It's obviously still on the air everywhere all the time in reruns),...
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Last Week's House "Reconciliation" Bill Was A Hoax
My column from today's Roll Callexplains why the "reconciliation" bill the House passed last week that the GOP leadership was so proud of and wanted everyone to think was a major accomplishment in...
View ArticleMike Huckabee Lies Too
Given how little he evidently knows about the congressional budget process, it's a very good thing that former GOP Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee didn't run successfully for president and has opted...
View ArticleReconciliation Cannot Be Used To Enact Immigration Reform
Since it passed the Senate last week, there's been a great deal of discussion in the blogosphere and inside the beltway about whether the House can be forced to consider the Senate-passed bill.Most of...
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