{"id":4077,"date":"2010-03-03T12:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2010-03-03T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:43:00","slug":"best-single-source-description-of-the-reconciliation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4077\/best-single-source-description-of-the-reconciliation-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Single Source Description of the &#8220;Reconciliation&#8221; Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone looking for an excellent summary of the history, purpose, and use of the Senate\u2019s budget reconciliation process, Newt Gingrich provides <a href=\" http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=35862 \" target=\"_blank\">the best single source description<\/a> I\u2019ve read so far.\u00a0 This analysis \u2013 supplemented with charts showing when the process has been used, by whom, and for what \u2013 will be very helpful when debating your liberal friends or trying to decipher the media\u2019s confused coverage of the procedure.\u00a0 It even discusses &#8220;the Byrd Rule&#8221; (named after its author, West Virginia Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd), and its role in stopping the Clinton White House from using reconciliation to pass HillaryCare.\u00a0 With President Obama calling on congressional Democrats to use reconciliation to pass the Senate\u2019s health care \u201creform\u201d bill so they can bypass a Republican filibuster, now is the time to get your arguments down and call your members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Human Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone looking for an excellent summary of the history, purpose, and use of the Senate\u2019s budget reconciliation process, Newt Gingrich provides the best single source description I\u2019ve read so far.\u00a0 This analysis \u2013 supplemented with charts showing when the process has been used, by whom, and for what \u2013 will be very helpful when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[465,869,214,922],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care-reform","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-reconciliation","tag-robert-byrd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}