Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Resolution Agreement Framework & Reconciliation Amendments

On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the House adopted the $3.5 trillion budget resolution previously approved by the Senate with reconciliation instructions (S. Con. Res. 14) on August 11, 2021. The resolution sets revenue and spending targets for a budget reconciliation bill but does not prescribe policy details, which will be provided and transcribed into tax and spending legislation by various Senate and House Committees. Adoption by the House was the final hurdle before the drafting of a $3.5 trillion package of Democratic priorities can pass by a simple majority vote in the Senate with no right to filibuster. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer aspires to pass both the reconciliation bill and infrastructure bill by the end of September. Prior to budget resolution adoption in the Senate, the customary "vote-a-rama" occurs, which includes the rapid consideration of nonbinding amendments on a variety of issues that don't have a practical outcome in the reconciliation bill but put members on record on issues. 

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