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The entire Senate- or House-passed health care bill could not and would not pass muster under the current reconciliation rules, which were established under my watch… Yet a bill structured to reduce deficits by, for example, finding savings in Medicare or lowering health care costs, may be consistent with the Budget Act, and appropriately considered under reconciliation.
— Senator Robert Byrd explaining why changing portions of health care legislation using reconciliation is within the Senate rules (that Byrd helped establish)
