Reconcilable Differences?
  Preface

  Introduction
 expand section1  Confusion in Budgetary Politics 1966–1972
 expand section2  A New Budget Process
 collapse section3  Reconciliation and the Emergence of Majoritarian Politics
 •How Reconciliation Works
 •The Need for Reconciliation
 •The Budget Process without Reconciliation
 •Assumed Legislative Savings
 •Initiating Reconciliation
 •Enhanced Importance of Budget Resolutions
 expand sectionBudget Negotiations after 1980
 •Change in the Senate Budget Committee
 •Floor-Centered Activity
 expand section4  Committees in a Floor-centered Budget Process
 expand section5  Gramm-Rudman and the Politics of Frustration
 expand sectionConclusion:  Budgetary Procedure and Political Outcomes

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