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To: Durbin

Motion to proceed (cloture) failed to get the required 60 votes.

It is long past time that Senate rules were re-written.


8 posted on 01/21/2016 7:15:09 AM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: brothers4thID

There’s always a way to figure it out if you want it - I personally like the 60 votes - while it often stymies just imagine the things Reid, George Mitchell, Byrd, et al might have foisted on us over the years were it not there. We’d have all been soviets long ago.


15 posted on 01/21/2016 7:30:29 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: brothers4thID

“Motion to proceed (cloture) failed to get the required 60 votes.”
That never stopped the democrats when they were in the majority. Which is kind of my point.


22 posted on 01/21/2016 8:28:57 AM PST by Durbin
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To: brothers4thID

And the GOP(e) too stupid and feckless to point out the DEMs hypocrisy on ‘democracy’ (51 votes).

Like the Constitution, only bring-up/support that which furthers one’s agenda


31 posted on 01/21/2016 11:41:42 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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