To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Ruling From Parliamentarian Gives Democrats an Extra Shot at Reconciliation. At the onset of the Biden Presidency, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sat for an interview with NBC News in which he telegraphed a so-called “ace up his sleeve.” Well, I think we now know the identity of the Ace: The most important policy news on the federal level to drop since the last newsletter is the Parliamentarian’s ruling that the majority party in the Senate -- the Democrats, via Kamala Harris for those uninitiated -- may pass three reconciliation bills this year. Democrats were already celebrating the fact that they could pass two reconciliation bills this year, but this ruling from the parliamentarian gifts Democrats a much-needed windfall to pass their increasingly expensive agenda. Indeed, in an interview on NBC News, Senator Bernie Sanders, Chair of the Budget Committee, noted that the ruling is “important because it gives us a little more flexibility. . . . [t]hey don`t have to push everything into one bill.” Note that Bernie used the pronoun us, even though he is not technically a Democrat.