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Senate Parliamentarian Going at Big, Beautiful Bill Like Lizzie Borden It's good to be the queen, and when you are one who's been appointed by a different king, you see things (D)ifferently. The Senate Parliamentarian is a lady and a lawyer named Elizabeth MacDonough. She's been in the Parliamentarian's office since 1999, so she has seen a lot of sturm und drang in her tenure. She took over and was officially appointed by Harry Reid as the Senate Parliamentarian in 2012. So she also has a lot of time in grade at the head of the office. Some of the biggest fights the Senate has had were when they attempted a reconciliation package that qualified for not needing to meet the 60-vote threshold most budget bills do. The big test for any reconciliation effort is something called the Byrd Rule. That determines if what is contained in the Senate version of the bill (and this rule only applies to the Senate) meets the following parameters in order to allow it to proceed: It is the Senate Parliamentarian's job to ensure that all aspects of a reconciliation package do just that when objections or points of orders are raised against specific items within the proposed package. Under the Byrd Rule, any Senator may raise a point of order against (and if sustained, strike) extraneous matter that
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