Not every pill is The Pill, not every man is The Man, and not every reconciliation between the houses of Congress is Reconciliation, so to speak. Hence your co

Not every pill is The Pill, not every man is The Man, and not every reconciliation between the houses of Congress is Reconciliation, so to speak. Hence your confusion. A bill passed under the reconciliation rules cannot be filibustered, but only budget-related resolutions that meet certain very strict criteria can be passed through the reconciliation process. Some folks were making a lot of noise along the lines of “if this gets filibustered we’ll just pass something through reconciliation”, but that hasn’t happened and at this juncture I don’t think it will happen. What’s happening now is a very different process: negotiators from the House and Senate are going to try to come up with a single bill text that can still get a majority of the house and sixty votes in the Senate. They still need sixty Senators because the bill that emerges from these negotiations is governed by the same cloture rules as a normal bill.