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Wed Nov 23, 2016, 06:15 PM

 

Ever heard of double reconciliation? No and no one else did either before Nov 9th.

Be prepared for GOP policies being ramrod-ed through. More dirty tricks from the GOP.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2016/11/11/gop-to-do-previously-unimaginable-things-to-slam-dunk-its-agenda/#685a044567b5

GOP To Use Previously Unheard Of Tactic To Slam Dunk Trump Agenda

The Republican congressional leadership is seriously considering an unprecedented procedure to guarantee that its and President-elect Donald Trump’s highest priorities are quickly enacted soon after Congress convenes next year.

The key is “reconciliation,” the part of the congressional budget process that allows highly controversial policies to be considered in the Senate without any possibility of them being filibustered.

But reconciliation by itself isn’t the unprecedented procedure; it’s the novel way the leadership plans to use reconciliation: For the first time in the 4-plus decades’ history of the congressional budget process, reconciliation may occur twice in the same year.

Theoretically, two reconciliations in the same year are legally impossible because the Congressional Budget Act only allows one set of reconciliation instructions per budget resolution.
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Wed Nov 23, 2016, 06:30 PM

1. They are also considering Double Secret Probation for House Democrats. nt

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Wed Nov 23, 2016, 08:07 PM

2. kick nt

 

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