U.S. SENATOR TAMMY BALDWIN INTRODUCES AMENDMENT TO PROHIBIT ACA REPEAL FROM INCREASING THE DEFICIT
"This budget process was created for deficit reduction--which the Republican majority claims to care so much about,"
Baldwin's amendment would restore the "Conrad rule" prohibiting reconciliation legislation from increasing the deficit within the ten-year budget window. This rule, named after former Senate Budget Committee Chairman
"The entire reason Reconciliation was created was for deficit reduction. For that special, protected, fast track process to be used to increase the deficit stands logic and its history on its head. It is past time to restore the Reconciliation process to its original purpose which was exclusively for deficit reduction. I applaud
"Reconciliation legislation is considered under special expedited procedures and should be used to enact the tough choices necessary to reduce the debt trajectory, not to make tax and spending giveaways even easier to deliver," said
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Read this original document at: https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/amendment-prohibits-aca-repeal-from-increasing-deficit-
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