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Why does McConnell need 60 votes for spending resolution? When did we abandon majority rule?
Jan 20 2018 | WilliamIII

Posted on 01/20/2018 1:03:00 PM PST by WilliamIII

Ann Coulter says it's unconstitutional to require supermajority for budget. Is she right?


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To: WilliamIII

MAGA v DACA


61 posted on 01/20/2018 6:17:42 PM PST by NoLibZone (If ISIS is playing the NFL I will root for ISIS.)
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To: Amendment10

The phrase “equal suffrage in the Senate” simply refers to the fact that all states have an equal number of Senators. This cannot be changes by any amendment. An amendment could be ratified to change the number of Senators to 3 per state or 1 per state, but no amendment would be allowed that would give states an unequal number of Senators.

This has absolutely nothing to do with cloture or the filibuster. That is a Senate rule; the Constitution grants the Senate the sole powrr to make its own rules.


62 posted on 01/20/2018 6:31:00 PM PST by stremba
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To: chiller
If they changed their rules to a simple majority, they'd get 51 votes.

Like the ObamaCare repeal vote -- right? /sarcasm off/

63 posted on 01/20/2018 6:36:03 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: CarolinaReaganFan
They need to shut the government down for several days so Trump's people can gather mountains of evidence from the empty offices over at the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

I'm only half-kidding here, folks.

64 posted on 01/20/2018 6:38:11 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Vineyard

“If the 60 vote threshold is eliminated - the next time we see the House, Senate and Presidency controlled by Democrats - we will get ‘rolled’ even worse than ever.”

When Harry Reid was the Leader of the Senate, he let nothing stand in his way when changing the 60 vote requirement was to his and his Socialist colleagues’advantage. Just look back a few years at our history.

If they ever regain power in the Senate, the sanctity of rules as they exist today won’t mean a damned thing.They will empower themselves to do whatever they please by any means necessary (BAMN) and it will be CW 2.


65 posted on 01/20/2018 6:52:21 PM PST by Postman (The Flies, having defined BHO and HRC, will move on to Willard anon.)
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To: Vineyard
If the 60 vote threshold is eliminated - the next time we see the House, Senate and Presidency controlled by Democrats - we will get ‘rolled’ even worse than ever.

That's what bothers me when I hear Trump and other Republicans whine about it.

When the Democrats get power again, if they didn't have that 60 vote barrier in place, they would run hog wild. Pigs at the feeding trough wouldn't even begin to describe it.
66 posted on 01/20/2018 10:01:37 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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