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	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - United States Senate
		Senators are elected by their state as a whole; if both Senate seats are contested in one election year, the elections will be separate and all voters in the state will cast votes for one candidate in each of the two races.
		Reconciliation was not used for several years after it was created in 1974, and was only used every few years in the 1980s and 1990s – usually for extremely contentious budgets.
		The senator from each state with the longer tenure is known as the "senior senator" and carries some additional responsibilities to their state's constituents; however, this does not necessarily indicate a hierarchy in which the senior senator has direct authority over the junior senator.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/United_States_Senate (2154 words)

	Reconciliation (Senate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Senate that is intended to allow a contentious budget bill to be considered without being subject to filibuster.
		Reconciliation also applies in the United States House of Representatives, but since the House regularly passes rules that constrain debate and amendment, the reconciliation process represented less of a change in that body.
		Until 1996, reconciliation was limited to deficit reduction, but in 1996 the Senate adopted a precedent to apply reconciliation to any legislation affecting the budget, even legislation that would worsen the deficit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reconciliation_(Senate) (665 words)

	Reconciliation (senate)
		Reconciliation was used to pass Bill Clinton 's 1993 (FY 1994) budget.
		Bill Clinton wanted to use reconciliation to pass his health care plan, but Robert Byrd persuaded Clinton that the health care plan was out of bounds for a process that is theoretically about budgets.
		At this point reconciliation comes into play, and the appropriations figures in the budget resolution are no longer guidelines they are law, and committees must meet those budget figures.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Reconciliation_(Senate) (432 words)

	Budg.Rec.Proc
		The reconciliation process is an optional procedure and not a required action by Congress every fiscal year as is passage of the concurrent budget resolution.
		In the Senate, these violations of the reconciliation instructions may be remedied through the adoption of an amendment on the Senate floor or the adoption of a motion to recommit the bill with instructions to report back forthwith with an amendment containing legislative language which satisfies the original instruction.
		In the Senate, total debate on a reconciliation bill is limited to 20 hours, although the actual time for consideration of the omnibus package often exceeds this time limit set in the Budget Act.
	www.usinfo.org /house/rule/budgrecproc.htm (1156 words)

	Federal Budget & Tax Update, vol. 7, no. 4
		The Senate Finance Committee had hoped to begin a markup of the reconciliation bill on May 9, due to the printing delay the Senate measure as well as that of the House is on hold until final passage of the budget resolution.
		According to Senate staff, Senators Grassley (R-Iowa) and Baucus (D-Montana), chair and ranking member of the committee, and primary cosponsors of the bill, would like to include S. 742 in the reconciliation measure but are facing resistance from Senators who would like other measures to fit within the $1.35 trillion eleven-year tax bill.
		Senators Voinovich (R-Ohio) and Senator Feinstein (D-California) are currently working to garner Senate signatures on a letter that will be forwarded to the President and the Commission urging that mandatory Social Security be taken off the table.
	www.ncsl.org /statefed/fbu5701.htm (1541 words)

	1997 Senate Votes
		Budget Reconciliation: Passage of S. Budget Reconciliation: Senate passed S. 947, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 104(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998, taking action on amendments proposed thereto.
		Revenue Reconciliation: Amendment-a process amendment on Reconciliation Revenue Reconciliation: Senate continued consideration of S. 949, to provide for revenue reconciliation pursuant to section 104(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998, taking action on amendments/motions proposed thereto, as follows: Agreed To: Domenici Amendment No. 539 to S. 949, a process amendment.
		Revenue Reconciliation: Senate continued consideration of S. 949, to provide for revenue reconciliation pursuant to section 104(b) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998, taking action on amendments/motions proposed thereto, as follows: Rejected: McCain point of order against the section of the bill dealing with Amtrak funds.
	www.proaxis.com /~cop/svjun.htm (4624 words)

	Key Questions for Judging the Outcome of House-Senate Reconciliation Negotiations, 12/8/05
		The combined effect of the House tax-cut and budget-cut reconciliation bills — with millionaires receiving lavish tax cuts that increase their already large incomes while low-income families are made worse off (and in many cases, pushed deeper into poverty) — is inconsistent with the notion of shared sacrifice to tackle the nation’s fiscal woes.
		This use of the budget reconciliation process to increase the deficit is at odds with the use of the process for most of the past quarter century.
		Senate conservatives have indicated they are unlikely to support a final tax package that does not include the extension of the capital gains and dividend tax cuts, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced he will insist on the inclusion of these tax cuts in the final tax bill that comes out of conference.
	www.cbpp.org /12-8-05bud.htm (4875 words)

	Coalition on Human Needs
		House and Senate negotiators have come to agreement on the tax reconciliation bill that is part two of the 2006 budget reconciliation process.
		The centerpiece of the $70 billion tax reconciliation bill is the extension to 2010 of capital gains and dividend tax breaks enacted in 2003 and set to expire in 2008.
		Both the House and Senate tax reconciliation bills extended a number of tax breaks for individuals and corporations including research and development credits, tax credits for employers who hire low-income workers, and the sales tax deduction for individuals, all set to expire at the end of 2006 and not contained in the reconciliation bill.
	www.chn.org /humanneeds/060505b.html (615 words)

	Media Matters - NY Times ignored Republican effort to promote tax cuts on investments at expense of delaying ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, said Tuesday that Congress was not likely to act this year to shield millions of middle- and upper-income taxpayers from a larger income tax bite as lawmakers moved into the final days of the session with many major issues hanging in the balance.
		Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said Congress may postpone until next year a measure to prevent 15 million households from paying $30 billion under the alternative minimum tax, indicating that extending tax cuts on capital gains and dividends was a higher priority.
		Frist's comments signaled that the Senate may remove the AMT measure from budget legislation it passed in November, adopting instead a measure passed by the House last week to extend the 15 percent rate on dividends and most capital gains until 2010.
	mediamatters.org /items/200512140017 (1275 words)

	PROPOSED AGENCY INTERPRETATION OF "FEDERAL MEANS-TESTED PUBLIC BENEFITS" UNDER PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK ...
		As reconciliation legislation, the PRA must be interpreted in the context of both the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, which establishes general rules that govern the enactment of budget reconciliation measures, and congressional actions taken pursuant to that statutory regime.
		The PRA was brought to the floor of the Senate as a reconciliation bill, and as such was subject to the special rules that govern the reconciliation process set forth in section 313 of the CBA.
		Senate committees are creatures of the Senate, and, as such, should not be in the position of dictating to the Senate as is being done here.
	www.usdoj.gov /olc/meanstst10.htm (7157 words)

	Chambliss says White House, Goodlate blocked extension of commodity programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss fought for the extension, which was in the Senate-passed bill, in the omnibus reconciliation conference report.
		Chambliss voted for the deficit reduction omnibus reconciliation conference report in the Senate but indicated he was still unhappy with the agriculture provisions of the measure.
		The Senate reconciliation bill, he would, would have preserved the 2007 farm bill baseline options for commodity crops with temporary cuts over multiple years with all crops, conservation, research and rural development taking a fair share.
	deltafarmpress.com /news/122105budget-reconciliation (858 words)

	OMB Watch - Service Cuts for the Poor to Finance Tax Cuts for the Rich
		Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) had originally planned to include significant cuts to the Food Stamp program, but eventually reported a bill with no cuts after a number of Agriculture Committee members requested they be removed.
		The stark contrast between this and the Senate’s approach to program cuts in Medicaid and Medicare could be a central point of contention between the two chambers during a conference.
		Neither the House nor the Senate is considering canceling plans to pass these new tax cuts or delaying the enactment of planned cuts benefiting the richest of the rich.
	www.ombwatch.org /article/articleview/3159/1/402 (1435 words)

	Byrd Brains (4/18/05)
		That any senator may raise a point of order against any part of a budget reconciliation bill that is extraneous (which is supposed to mean that it does not help achieve the goal of the bill -- i.e., have direct budgetary impact).
		The allure of budget reconciliation legislation is that it cannot be filibustered in the Senate; it must be voted upon by the world's greatest deliberative body.
		Budget reconciliation has become a "process that has morphed into an annual exercise, where the majority party takes advantage of the limitations on amendment and debate allowed by the Budget Act to shield controversial legislation from public discussion," Byrd said in a March 2004 statement on the Senate floor.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0405/041805ol.htm (710 words)

	CANH-Issues-Fedbudget-OctUpdate
		This tactic was used by the budget-cutters because under Senate rules, reconciliation bills are difficult to amend and cannot be filibustered.
		The delay in the budget reconciliation process presents us with a window of opportunity to publicly push for cancellation of the budget reconciliation process altogether – meaning the cancellation of both the required entitlement cuts and the $70 billion in additional tax breaks.
		That is, if neither reconciliation bill passes, the deficit will be lower than if budget and tax reconciliation bills that adhere to the targets in the budget blueprint are enacted.
	www.childrennh.org /CANH-Issues-Fedbudget-OctUpdate.php (1101 words)

	Budget Reconciliation Primer
		The reconciliation process gives Congress the means to achieve revenue, mandatory-spending, and debt limit levels consistent with the goals of the current Budget Resolution.
		Over the past 15 years, three reconciliation bills have been enacted: in constant 2005 dollars, the 1990 bill cut mandatory spending by $100 billion, the 1993 bill cut $96 billion, and the 1997 bill cut $118 billion, all over a five-year period.
		The same committees also are instructed to report a reconciliation bill that requires increases in the limit on statutory debt by $781 billion.
	www.freedomworks.org /informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=2445 (1750 words)

	On The Hill - Moving Ideas
		The Senate voted on November 3 to pass a budget reconciliation bill that included an ANWR oil drilling provision.
		The Senate did however pass an amendment that would prohibit the exportation of any ANWR oil or gas out of the United States by a vote of 83-16.
		Senate budget reconciliation language opening up ANWR to oil drilling was dropped from the final bill and instead included in the must-pass conference report language of the Defense Appropriations bill.
	www.movingideas.org /content/en/on_the_hill/anwr_drilling.htm (646 words)

	todd.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On Wednesday, June 25, both the House and Senate passed reconciliation bills within the framework of the agreed-to budget resolution by votes of 270162 and 7327 respectively.
		The House and Senate bills achieve much of their $137 billion in savings over the next five years through reduction in the size of entitlements such as Medicaid and Medicare.
		At press time, the House and Senate were expected to pass their versions of the tax portion of reconciliation intended to provide $85 billion in net tax cuts for families and investors.
	www.naco.org /cnews/1997/97-07-07/todd.htm (324 words)

	Children's Monitor Online: View Issue
		The Senate, however, decided not to include these measures in the budget reconciliation bill, but is continuing to pursue TANF and Child Care bills as separate legislation.
		The Senate bill allows a charitable deduction for total cash contributions over $210 for single filers and a $420 deduction for joint filers if the taxpayer does not itemize deductions on his or her income taxes.
		The Senate tax bill also calls for changes to donor advised funds, including the creation of a definition for donor advised funds, and suggests that the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury will monitor the actions of the corresponding sponsor organizations.
	www.cwla.org /advocacy/monitoronline-issueHL.asp?ISSUEID=62 (2240 words)

	The Annual Budget Process
		In the Senate, terms of debate on Appropriations bills are governed by thenormal procedures of the Senate.
		The reconciliation process is an important budgetenforcement tool designed to force the Congress and the President to cometo agreements about the policies that drive the entitlement and revenueportions of the federal budget equation.
		Once a reconciliation bill is passed in the House and the Senate, membersof each body meet to work out their differences.
	usa.usembassy.de /etexts/gov/bud/annual.htm (2244 words)

	Children's Monitor Online: View Issue
		The Senate reconciliation bill has not been assigned a bill number yet, but it actually exceeds its target of cutting programs by $39 billion, instead of the required $35 billion.
		The Senate is moving fast, and plans are to start debate on October 31, with the debate and final vote to be finished by the end of the week.
		The bill (Senate substitute for H.R. 3010) was the subject of several amendments, but the funding numbers did not change significantly from the original committee proposal.
	www.cwla.org /advocacy/monitoronline-issueHL.asp?ISSUEID=58 (1753 words)

	Budget Reconciliation Guide for Conferees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Senate Medicaid/SCHIP provisions are projected to reduce outlays by $4.2 billion over the 2006 to 2010 period and by $15.2 billion over the 2006 to 2015 period, according to the CBO.
		The main difference between the House and Senate provisions is that the House package would extend the variable-rate formula for borrowers in the guaranteed-rate federal student loan program, which is currently scheduled to shift to a fixed rate in 2006.
		The Senate bill, in return for shaving $3.0 billion off the $102 billion scheduled to be spent on farm subsidies and conservation payments over the next five years, extends the farm subsidy programs of the 2002 farm bill—currently scheduled to expire in 2007—through 2011.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Budget/wm933.cfm (6435 words)

	NACCRRA \| Capitol Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While ordinarily we would be urging you to contact your Senators or Representative about child care, this time, we are asking that you take action because the broader budget picture or outlook is ugly for families with children overall in the bill.
		The House budget reconciliation bill includes far less for child care than needed (as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office) to meet the new work requirements for TANF parents that the House has included in its Budget Reconciliation bill.
		For that reason, we hope to put pressure on a targeted list of Senators to impact 6 votes (enable the Republican majority to garner the support of only 49 Senators, which would mean the bill would be rejected).
	www.naccrra.org /policy/capconn.php?program=63 (809 words)

	AAPD-Federal Budget Update
		House Reconciliation Spending Bill: In the wee hours of the morning on Friday, November 18, just before their Thanksgiving recess, the House by a vote of 217-215 passed a bill that slashed health care (Medicaid), food stamps, child support enforcement, student loans, and made it harder for low-income families to access child care.
		Senate Reconciliation Tax Bill: On Friday, November 18, again before their Thanksgiving recess, the Senate passed a $60 billion tax cut package by agreeing to leave out, for the moment, controversial provisions to extend the expiring tax breaks on capital gains and dividends.
		Many moderates in the House voted for the budget reconciliation at the last minute because they were promised that the cuts would be softened in conference with the Senate.
	www.aapd.com /News/budgetrec/fedbudgetupd.htm (1223 words)

	The Endocrine Society : Senate Budget Reconciliation Package Proposes Several Changes to Medicare, May Avert Physician ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Senate Budget Reconciliation Package Proposes Several Changes to Medicare, May Avert Physician Pay Cut
		On October 25, the Senate Finance Committee passed its budget reconciliation package with a vote of 11-9.
		The Senate Finance Package would reduce direct spending by $10 billion between 2006 and 2010, and $54.8 billion from 2006-2015.
	www.endo-society.org /publicpolicy/insider/medicare_physician_pay.cfm (382 words)

	NCIL - The National Council on Independent Living - Action Alert
		On the Senate side, there was more time to consider the conference package and many hours of debate, but the outcome was similarly disappointing.
		These Senators deserve our commendation, since it is never easy for a member of a party to go against the leadership on such a closely contested issue.
		Accordingly, we urge the Senate to reject the reconciliation conference package and insist that the House accede to the fair and responsible provisions adopted by the Senate earlier this year.
	www.ncil.org /news/budgetfinal.html (1408 words)

	AAMC : Washington Highlights : September 9, 2005, Washington Highlights
		In their first week back from August recess, House and Senate Republican leaders are considering whether to delay the budget reconciliation process to allow time to prepare disaster relief legislative packages associated with Hurricane Katrina.
		While no amendments were offered during mark up, Senators Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said they were unhappy with the lack of provisions to direct student aid to low-income students, and may offer amendments on the Senate Floor.
		The Senate version of the HEA reauthorization bill (S. 1614), which the Senate HELP Committee was scheduled to mark up Sept. 8, is expected to dedicate only $7 billion to reconciliation, $5.65 billion short of its reconciliation target.
	www.aamc.org /advocacy/library/washhigh/2005/090905/start.htm (1430 words)

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