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….