So budget reconciliation is the vehicle that you can get around the filibuster and pass our agenda. So the reconciliation matters enormously. Now, there are a whole series of Rules for what's … We can do budgetary things and not policy things [under reconciliation rules]. … should we proceed? The House of Representatives and the Senate are having a big argument right now, and the House and Senator, on different places, what the House has argued for is that we should do one gigantic reconciliation bill. (05:26–05:38)
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Asserts that reconciliation rules allow for budgetary changes but not policy changes.
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