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Originally Posted by ResAlien
As long as the Republicans control both houses they can circle back to this time and time again. There's plenty of opportunities left for their votes to be bought and sold before 2018.
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If they get input from Democrats to get 60 votes for sure, but the reconciliation process that they wanted to use (so they only had to get 50 votes) is limited.
Under Senate interpretations of the Congressional Budget Act, the Senate can consider the three basic subjects of reconciliation — spending, revenues, and debt limit — in a single bill or multiple bills, but it can consider each of these three in only one bill per year (unless Congress passes a second budget resolution). Consequently, in the Senate there can be a maximum of three reconciliation bills in a year, one for each of the basic subjects of reconciliation.
This rule is most significant if the first reconciliation bill that the Senate takes up affects both spending and revenues. Even if that bill is overwhelmingly devoted to only one of those subjects, no subsequent reconciliation bill can affect either revenues or spending because the first bill already addressed them.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federa...reconciliation
I've heard a number of podcases though say that if Trumpcare isn't passed before the August recess then it's permanently dead, but I don't know if that's just hyperbole, or if there's something involving these rules going on that I haven't read about.