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Reply #18: Believe it or not, reconciliation used to be able be used to add to the deficit in a 10 year window.
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Wed Sep-15-10 02:48 AM
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18. Believe it or not, reconciliation used to be able be used to add to the deficit in a 10 year window. |
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Edited on Wed Sep-15-10 02:48 AM by BzaDem
Democrats that changed the rules in 2006 to prevent that from happening, since that's what the GOP used to pass the Bush tax cuts in the first place. At that time in 2001, it was the first time reconciliation was used to add to the deficit.
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