Reconciliation (United States Congress) Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Congress that allows expedited passage of certain budgetary legislation on spending, revenues, and the federal debt limit with a simple majority vote in both the House (218 votes) and Senate (51 votes).
surrender - Legal Definition n Delivery into the possession of another, such as vacating of property by the tenant before the lease has terminated so that the landlord may consider termination to have occurred; the giving up of a claim or a right; yielding to the control or power of another; the return of an estate to the one who has a reversion so as to merge the estate into a larger one.
transitive verb. 1  To give up or abandon (control of something or a claim, for example). 2  To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended); stop doing or adhering to. 3  To let go; surrender: relinquished the lands by treaty.