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Elizabeth Macdonough
politics
Oct. 4, 2021
Raising the Debt Ceiling Is Now a Slightly Less Nightmarish Task
The parliamentarian says Democrats can lift the debt limit without derailing Biden’s agenda, no GOP votes required. But it’s still a tricky maneuver.
By
Ed Kilgore
politics
Sept. 20, 2021
No Immigration Breakthrough in Reconciliation Bill, Says Parliamentarian
Under the Senate’s obscure Byrd Rule, the budget implications of immigration reforms benefiting eight million people are “incidental.”
By
Ed Kilgore
immigration
Apr. 21, 2021
Reconciliation May Not Solve Democrats’ Immigration Woes
As with the $15 minimum wage, a path to citizenship could succumb to a Senate parliamentarian’s ruling. And then there’s Joe Manchin.
By
Ed Kilgore
budget reconciliation
Apr. 5, 2021
Democrats Get One More Big Bill This Year That Cannot Be Filibustered
The Senate Parliamentarian agrees with Schumer’s multiple-reconciliation-bill theory, which could make Republican obstruction irrelevant.
By
Ed Kilgore
Nov. 30, 2017
Senate Parliamentarian Throws Sand Into the Gears of the GOP Tax-Cut Machine
It looked like the GOP tax cut would glide through the Senate. But a parliamentarian’s ruling has estranged deficit hawks.
By
Ed Kilgore
July 21, 2017
Senate Parliamentarian May Have Dealt Last, No-Kidding-Final Blow to Trumpcare
By excluding from Trumpcare indispensable features, the Senate parliamentarian has probably killed the bill unless McConnell nukes her rulings.
By
Ed Kilgore