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To: TBP

McConnell has already given the Dems a heads up. There will be no nuclear option. But if they passed it with a simple majority and send it to Congress and Trump to sign it, won’t that be sufficient?


102 posted on 11/11/2016 10:18:01 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: lucky american
They can't pass a law in the new Senate without the nuclear option. In other words: what you're suggesting is impossible while the filibuster is still in place. As long as there is a filibuster, no bill can come to the floor without 60 votes.

0bamacare isn't going to be repealed that way: it's a tax measure, as John Roberts told us. It was passed as a budget reconciliation measure, which is not subject to the filibuster, and it can be repealed in EXACTLY the same way, as part of the budget.

113 posted on 11/11/2016 10:45:13 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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