Road Map: Conference Will Host the Real Budget Drama

• By Emily Pierce
• Roll Call Staff
• March 31, 2009, Midnight

To reconcile or not to reconcile, that is the question.
Just because fast-track budget rules are not in the Senate’s $3.5 trillion spending blueprint, that doesn’t mean the fiscal 2010 budget battle in both chambers this week won’t be dominated by a will-they-or-won’t-they debate over including reconciliation instructions to protect health care and education reforms from a filibuster.