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Mike Lee: “Budget reconciliation has the obvious advantage in that…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Mike Lee Delivers Emphatic Defense Of The SAVE America Act In Senate Floor Speech

Published | Video Starts at 41:38

All right, so we've talked about passing to a spending bill or a defense authorization bill. Some other must pass vehicle. Another option under consideration involves budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation has the obvious advantage in that there is no cloture in the context of budget reconciliation. but it has to be budgetary, meaning it has to bring about changes to mandatory outlays or to revenues. While the Save America act itself as a whole is properly perceived as a policy bill, not a budgetary one. (41:38–42:00)

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