Democrats have used reconciliation very effectively in the past, Obamacare being certainly one example of that. They use reconciliation to be able to do that. Now why do we do reconciliation? Because You only need 51 votes in the Senate for [reconciliation] to pass. You do not need a cloture vote where you'd need 60 senators to vote for cloture. So you only need 51 for it to be able to pass. (11:25)
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Asserts that reconciliation requires only 51 Senate votes to pass.
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