Number: RL33030
Title: The Budget Reconciliation Process: House and Senate Procedures
Authors: Robert Keith and Bill Henniff, Jr., Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: Following an introduction that provides an overview of the reconciliation process and discusses its historical development, this report explains the process in sections dealing with the underlying authorities, reconciliation directives in budget resolutions, initial consideration of reconciliation measures in the House and Senate, resolving House-Senate differences on reconciliation measures, and presidential approval or disapproval of such measures. The text of two relevant sections of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Sections 310 and 313) is set forth in the appendices, along with a list of other Congressional Research Service products pertaining to reconciliation procedures.
Pages: 108
Date: August 10, 2005