[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 146 (Monday, September 8, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3885]
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               CALLING FOR USE OF RECONCILIATION PROCESS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we are going to follow up with a theme 
that has been talked about earlier within our Conference.
  Frequently, Republicans have to go home and explain why they aren't 
getting done what they want to get done. It is because the rules in the 
Senate require 60 votes to break a filibuster, which means that you 
need Chuck Schumer to sign off in order to get almost anything done in 
the Senate.
  However, three times in this 2-year period, through the process 
called reconciliation, we are able to pass a bill out of the Senate 
with 50 votes or 51 votes with the Vice President. There are 
Republicans here who do not want to put us in that position.
  Mr. Speaker, 8 years ago in Donald Trump's first term, some of these 
same Republicans, when we also had three votes--we used one vote for 
the tax cut, one vote to try and failed to do something on healthcare 
reform, and a third vote that the Senators didn't want to use. They 
wanted to restrict the floor votes to votes in which Chuck Schumer 
signed off.
  We are now at the same position this time, and I hope that our talk 
radio and mouthpieces will wake up and demand that the Republicans use 
all three reconciliation votes this biennium.

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