Harry Reid wasn’t having any of it Tuesday when he called out Republicans for their past support of the filibuster-busting legislative tactic known as reconciliation:
“I have been told that my Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. I would recommend to them to go back and look at history. Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times—the vast majority of those reconciliation efforts have been by Republicans. So nothing’s off the table. We’ll have to take a look at that.”
“But realistically, they should stop crying about reconciliation as if it’s never been done before. It’s been done by almost every Congress, and they’re the ones who have used it more than anyone else. Contract for America was done with reconciliation. Tax cuts, done with reconciliation. Medicare, done with reconciliation.”