Congress Must Pass a Budget Before It Can Take Up a Reconciliation Bill
Democrats want [1] to use the congressional budget process to get parts of President Joe Biden’s agenda – like COVID-19 relief legislation – through Congress over Republicans’ objections. Specifically, they plan to use a particular aspect of the budget process – reconciliation – to circumvent an expected Republican filibuster of Biden’s proposals in the Senate. Democrats believe that reconciliation is critical in the evenly divided Senate because they do not have enough members to end a filibuster by invoking cloture under Rule XXII. That rule requires three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn to end debate on legislation (typically 60 senators). But before Democrats can use reconciliation, they must first [2] pass a budget resolution that sets up the expedited process. Democrats introduced [3] a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions on Monday.
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The victories by Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the Georgia runoff elections for the U.S. Senate mean that incoming majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will preside over the narrowest possible majority in the Senate under which Vice President Kamala Harris would provide the tie-breaking vote.
The House and the Senate s narrow margins make it unlikely that broad sweeping proposals advanced by progressive Democrats but not supported by their more moderate colleagues will be able to pass. However, control of the Senate should significantly impact the prospects for President Biden s healthcare agenda.
This Holland & Knight alert provides an updated assessment of healthcare policy activities likely to see action in the new 117th Congress and the Biden Administration in the wake of the Georgia runoff elections and based on additional information coming out of the Biden-Harris team.