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§907d Special Reconciliation Process

Title 2 › Chapter 20— EMERGENCY POWERS TO ELIMINATE BUDGET DEFICITS › Subchapter I— ELIMINATION OF DEFICITS IN EXCESS OF MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT › § 907d

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

When OMB sends an update that expects an automatic spending cut under sections 902 or 903, each Senate standing committee may send the Budget Committee, by October 10, alternatives showing how the cut would affect laws it handles. The Budget Committee may then, by October 15, bring a resolution to the Senate that can accept all or part of the expected cut. For any parts it does not accept, the resolution must say which parts those are and give instructions to Senate committees to come up with changes that together equal at least the total amount of cuts not accepted. Committees must send their responses to the Budget Committee within 10 days after the resolution is agreed to. If only one committee is instructed, that committee must instead report a reconciliation bill or resolution to the Senate by the same 10-day deadline. The Budget Committee must then report a reconciliation bill or resolution that carries out all committee recommendations exactly. If a committee fails to act, the Budget Committee must include language to achieve the required savings from that committee’s jurisdiction. An amendment that adds such an instruction is allowed if it would otherwise be in order. For these steps, "day" means any calendar day the Senate is in session, and "resolution" means a simple, joint, or concurrent resolution. Debate on the resolution in the Senate is limited to 10 hours.

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Title 2, §907d

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(a)(1)After the submission of an OMB sequestration update report under section 904 of this title that envisions a sequestration under section 902 or 903 of this title, each standing committee of the Senate may, not later than October 10, submit to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate information of the type described in section 632(d) of this title with respect to alternatives to the order envisioned by such report insofar as such order affects laws within the jurisdiction of the committee.

(2)After the submission of such a report, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may, not later than October 15, report to the Senate a resolution. The resolution may affirm the impact of the order envisioned by such report, in whole or in part. To the extent that any part is not affirmed, the resolution shall state which parts are not affirmed and shall contain instructions to committees of the Senate of the type referred to in section 641(a) of this title, sufficient to achieve at least the total level of deficit reduction contained in those sections which are not affirmed.

(3)Committees instructed pursuant to paragraph (2), or affected thereby, shall submit their responses to the Budget Committee no later than 10 days after the resolution referred to in paragraph (2) is agreed to, except that if only one such Committee is so instructed such Committee shall, by the same date, report to the Senate a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution containing its recommendations in response to such instructions. A committee shall be considered to have complied with all instructions to it pursuant to a resolution adopted under paragraph (2) if it has made recommendations with respect to matters within its jurisdiction which would result in a reduction in the deficit at least equal to the total reduction directed by such instructions.

(4)Upon receipt of the recommendations received in response to a resolution referred to in paragraph (2), the Budget Committee shall report to the Senate a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution, or both, carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revisions. In the event that a committee instructed in a resolution referred to in paragraph (2) fails to submit any recommendation (or, when only one committee is instructed, fails to report a reconciliation bill or resolution) in response to such instructions, the Budget Committee shall include in the reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported pursuant to this subparagraph legislative language within the jurisdiction of the noncomplying committee to achieve the amount of deficit reduction directed in such instructions.

(5)It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported under paragraph (4) with respect to a fiscal year, any amendment thereto, or any conference report thereon if—

(A)the enactment of such bill or resolution as reported;

(B)the adoption and enactment of such amendment; or

(C)the enactment of such bill or resolution in the form recommended in such conference report,

(6)In the Senate, an amendment which adds to a resolution reported under paragraph (2) an instruction of the type referred to in such paragraph shall be in order during the consideration of such resolution if such amendment would be in order but for the fact that it would be held to be non-germane on the basis that the instruction constitutes new matter.

(7)For purposes of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), the term “day” shall mean any calendar day on which the Senate is in session.

(b)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), in the Senate the provisions of section 636 and 641 of this title for the consideration of concurrent resolutions on the budget and conference reports thereon shall also apply to the consideration of resolutions, and reconciliation bills and reconciliation resolutions reported under this paragraph and conference reports thereon.

(2)Debate in the Senate on any resolution reported pursuant to subsection (a)(2), and all amendments thereto and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to 10 hours.

(3)section 641(d)(2) of this title shall apply to reconciliation bills and reconciliation resolutions reported under this subsection.

(4)Any bill or resolution received in the Senate from the House, which is a companion to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution of the Senate for the purposes of this subsection, shall be considered in the Senate pursuant to the provisions of this subsection.

(5)For purposes of this subsection, the term “resolution” means a simple, joint, or concurrent resolution.

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2 U.S.C. § 907d

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