Former Senate parliamentarian Robert Dove on reconciliation: “”Reconciliation has been used a lot. And I would never use the term illegitimate with regard to reconciliation. It has been used starting in 1980 for very large, major bills. And it is a way, of course, of getting around the problem of the Senate filibuster.” See the video.
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