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Excerpted from “BREAKING -- Reconciliation bill will have to go back to the House” By Meredith Shiner with Chris Frates, Politico, 03:06 AM
[SIZE="+2"]T[/SIZE]he reconciliation bill will have to go back to the House for another vote after Senate parliamentarian Alan Frumin ruled early this morning that two minor provisions violated the chamber's rules and could not be included in the final bill, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman Jim Manley.
Both provisions made technical changes to the bill's Pell Grant regulations. All told, 16 lines of text will be removed from the 153-page bill, Manley told reporters as business on the Senate floor wrapped early Thursday morning. …
It'll be over soon in the Senate, as early as 2 pm et today¹, but, it will be going back to the House.