Reconciliation Resolution in the United States

Reconciliation Resolution in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Reconciliation Resolution in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): A concurrent resolution (i.e., a resolution that the President does not sign) reported pursuant to reconciliation instructions in a congressional budget resolution directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate to make specified changes in bills and joint resolutions that have not been enrolled to bring direct spending or revenue laws into conformity with the budget resolution.

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See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Reconciliation Resolution)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)