Reconciliation Advocacy Center

WHERE WE ARE NOW 
(Week of June 30)

Senate

• The Senate is expected to complete its work on its budget reconciliation proposal this week, likely Tuesday. It is unclear at this time whether the House will simply move to pass the Senate bill or whether it plans to introduce changes to reconcile differences between the House and Senate proposals.
• The finance and education committees have each released their reconciliation bill text.  The full Senate is expected to begin consideration on June 27.  NAICU sent a letter this week to Senate leaders supporting key reconciliation provisions while raising concerns about others.  
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House of Representatives

• After months of negotiations, the House narrowly passed its version of a budget reconciliation bill on May 22 by a vote of 215 to 214. While a handful of technical revisions were made during the bill’s path from committee to floor, the sweeping changes to higher education policy were left almost entirely intact.  On May 20, NAICU sent a sign-on letter to Congressional leadership expressing its concerns about several proposed policies in the House reconciliation proposal.
• The Committee on Education & Workforce voted on April 29 to advance legislation proposing over $350 billion in cuts in federal higher education programs.
• The Committee on Ways & Means voted on May 14 to advance legislation that, among other things, preserves nearly all the student and family higher education benefits that had been under consideration for elimination and expands IRC Sec. 127 yet also increases the marginal rates on institutions eligible to pay the endowment tax.