To achieve the big agenda he’s laid out for his second term, President Donald Trump is leaning heavily on the unilateral ...
“Senate parliamentarians are put in an impossible position because ‘merely incidental’ is inherently a judgment call.” The current Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled in ...
The Senate’s parliamentarian has ruled that the Democrats’ pending $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill cannot include provisions designed to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented ...
Under Senate parliamentary guidance from 2001, there’s a “three bites at the apple” precedent: Each budget resolution can only produce one bill for each of the three categories allowed ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) warned Senate Republicans not to overrule parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough if some desired border security provisions are thrown out. Such a move would ...
after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it would not comply with reconciliation instructions. "With the TCJA, dynamic scoring did dampen the effect on the deficit pretty considerably — by almost ...