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Consider three bills -- two of them passed under budget reconciliation, the third heading for budget reconciliation.

Modified by Everett Hervey on our Facebook page. Consider three bills -- two of them passed under budget reconciliation, the third heading for budget reconciliation. Each had an effect on the fiscal health of the nation, calculated by the Congressional Budget Office. The first two, the tax cuts pushed by President George W. Bush, blew a hole in the budget. The third, the Senate's health reform bill? As you can see from the CBO projection, that's a different story. Source: Econbrowser