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Senate Kicks Off Marathon Vote Session for Budget Plan to Fund ICE, Border Patrol

| April 23, 2026 |Updated 2h ago |~1 min read |national |Source: www.theepochtimes.com
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The Senate began a marathon vote session on April 22 to decide on a blueprint to pass a bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The marathon session, called a “vote-a-rama,” consists of senators offering unlimited non-binding amendments to a budget resolution, which has instructions for committees to draft a bill to pass through a process called reconciliation. Budget resolutions unlock the reconciliation process. Reconciliation allows bills related to taxing, spending, and the national debt to pass with a simple majority in the Senate and therefore not be subject to the 60-vote filibuster threshold that applies to most legislation....

Originally published at www.theepochtimes.com
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