---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 907d"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "907d"
heading: "Special reconciliation process"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/907d"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Emergency Powers to Eliminate Budget Deficits"
  - "Subchapter I — Elimination of Deficits in Excess of Maximum Deficit Amount"
---

# §907d. Special reconciliation process

- (a) **Reporting of resolutions and reconciliation bills and resolutions, in Senate—**
  - (1) **Committee alternatives to Presidential order—** After the submission of an [OMB](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-15) [sequestration](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-2) update report under [section 904 of this title](/usc/2/904.md) that envisions a [sequestration](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-2) under section [902](/usc/2/902.md) or [903](/usc/2/903.md) of this title, each standing committee of the Senate may, not later than October 10, submit to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate information of the type described in [section 632(d) of this title](/usc/2/632.md?p=d) with respect to alternatives to the order envisioned by such report insofar as such order affects laws within the jurisdiction of the committee.
  - (2) **Initial Budget Committee action—** After the submission of such a report, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may, not later than October 15, report to the Senate a resolution. The resolution may affirm the impact of the order envisioned by such report, in whole or in part. To the extent that any part is not affirmed, the resolution shall [state](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1) which parts are not affirmed and shall contain instructions to committees of the Senate of the type referred to in [section 641(a) of this title](/usc/2/641.md?p=a), sufficient to achieve at least the total level of [deficit](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-1) reduction contained in those sections which are not affirmed.
  - (3) **Response of committees—** Committees instructed pursuant to [paragraph (2)](#a-2), or affected thereby, shall submit their responses to the Budget Committee no later than 10 days after the resolution referred to in [paragraph (2)](#a-2) is agreed to, except that if only one such Committee is so instructed such Committee shall, by the same date, report to the Senate a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution containing its recommendations in response to such instructions. A committee shall be considered to have complied with all instructions to it pursuant to a resolution adopted under [paragraph (2)](#a-2) if it has made recommendations with respect to matters within its jurisdiction which would result in a reduction in the [deficit](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-1) at least equal to the total reduction directed by such instructions.
  - (4) **Budget Committee action—** Upon receipt of the recommendations received in response to a resolution referred to in [paragraph (2)](#a-2), the Budget Committee shall report to the Senate a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution, or both, carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revisions. In the event that a committee instructed in a resolution referred to in [paragraph (2)](#a-2) fails to submit any recommendation (or, when only one committee is instructed, fails to report a reconciliation bill or resolution) in response to such instructions, the Budget Committee shall include in the reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported pursuant to this subparagraph legislative language within the jurisdiction of the noncomplying committee to achieve the amount of [deficit](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-1) reduction directed in such instructions.
  - (5) **Point of order—** It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported under [paragraph (4)](#a-4) with respect to a fiscal year, any amendment thereto, or any conference report thereon if—
    - (A) the enactment of such bill or resolution as reported;
    - (B) the adoption and enactment of such amendment; or
    - (C) the enactment of such bill or resolution in the form recommended in such conference report,

    would cause the amount of the [deficit](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-1) for such fiscal year to exceed the maximum [deficit](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-1) amount for such fiscal year, unless the low-growth report submitted under [section 904 of this title](/usc/2/904.md) projects negative [real economic growth](/usc/2/900.md?p=c-10) for such fiscal year, or for each of any two consecutive quarters during such fiscal year.

  - (6) **Treatment of certain amendments—** In the Senate, an amendment which adds to a resolution reported under [paragraph (2)](#a-2) an instruction of the type referred to in such paragraph shall be in order during the consideration of such resolution if such amendment would be in order but for the fact that it would be held to be non-germane on the basis that the instruction constitutes new matter.
  - (7) **“Day” defined—** For purposes of paragraphs [(1)](#a-1), [(2)](#a-2), and [(3)](#a-3), the term “day” shall mean any calendar day on which the Senate is in session.
- (b) **Procedures—**
  - (1) **In general—** Except as provided in [paragraph (2)](#b-2), in the Senate the provisions of sections [636](/usc/2/636.md) and [641](/usc/2/641.md) of this title for the consideration of concurrent resolutions on the budget and conference reports thereon shall also apply to the consideration of resolutions, and reconciliation bills and reconciliation resolutions reported under this paragraph and conference reports thereon.
  - (2) **Limit on debate—** Debate in the Senate on any resolution reported pursuant to [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2), and all amendments thereto and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to 10 hours.
  - (3) **Limitation on amendments—** [Section 641(d)(2) of this title](/usc/2/641.md?p=d-2) shall apply to reconciliation bills and reconciliation resolutions reported under this subsection.
  - (4) **Bills and resolutions received from the House—** Any bill or resolution received in the Senate from the House, which is a companion to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution of the Senate for the purposes of this subsection, shall be considered in the Senate pursuant to the provisions of this subsection.
  - (5) **“Resolution” defined—** For purposes of this subsection, the term “resolution” means a simple, joint, or concurrent resolution.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–177, title II, § 258C, as added Pub. L. 101–508, title XIII, § 13101(g), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388–600.)