Just before 3:00 a.m. this morning, the House adopted the rule for consideration of the reconciliation bill (H.R. 1, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act), by a vote of 217-212 with Rep. Thomas Massie voting no. The House completed all general debate on the bill at approximately 6:00 a.m. and just now successfully concluded votes […]

The House Rules Committee successfully reported out shortly before 11:00 p.m., teeing up the reconciliation bill to be debated on the House floor. The vote was 8-4 with Chip Roy not voting (Ralph Norman voted yes). The rule “self-executes” the Manager’s Amendment, meaning once the rule passes on the floor, the Manager’s Amendment is also […]

House Republican Leadership has released the below summary of changes made to the Budget Committee’s legislative text of H.R. 1 by the Manager’s Amendment that was posted by the House Rules Committee this evening. In addition, here is the Comparative Print showing the differences between H.R. 1 (as reported by the Budget Committee) and the Rules Committee […]

At 8:52pm, the House Rules Committee reconvened to resume consideration of the reconciliation bill, signaling Leadership’s decision to move forward with bringing the bill to the House floor this evening. We are now truly down to the final list of House Republican holdouts on the reconciliation package. Leadership’s focus is largely on the deficit hawks […]

We will be updating the House process throughout the day as Leadership prepares for a floor vote on The One, Big, Beautiful Bill (i.e., reconciliation). The House Rules Committee has been meeting on the reconciliation package since early this morning while the Speaker continues to meet with House Republican vote holdouts. To his credit, Speaker […]

Moments ago, the House Republican Reconciliation bill (dubbed “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”) failed to clear the House Budget Committee by a vote of 16-21. Four fiscal conservatives voted no, including Reps. Chip Roy (TX), Ralph Norman (SC), Josh Brecheen (OK), and Andrew Clyde (GA). A fifth Republican, Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA), voted no for […]

This afternoon, the House Committee on Ways and Means released Chairman Jason Smith’s amendment in the nature of a substitute (AINS) that will serve as the legislation to be marked up in Committee tomorrow at 2:30pm. Dubbed “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” it augments and, in some instances, modifies the provisions Ways and Means released […]

The coming days are among the most consequential for this year’s budget reconciliation process. As we forecasted last week, the three remaining House committees are scheduled to mark up their portions of the reconciliation bill this coming Tuesday, May 13: Agriculture, Energy & Commerce, and Ways & Means. E&C and W&M are scheduled to begin […]

As of this afternoon, the House Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture are tentatively planning to markup their portions of the reconciliation bill next Tuesday, May 13. Committee rules require bill text to be posted at least two legislative days prior to the markup, which would mean this Friday, May 9. […]

Congress returns from the two-week Easter Recess on Monday after having passed a unified Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget Resolution with reconciliation instructions, thus unlocking the expedited process for considering an extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and other Republican policy priorities (e.g., Trump campaign tax pledges, border security, domestic energy production, […]