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To: spaced

You need 66 Senators and they are never going to find 66 senators.

The best they might do is 62 but they would still fall short and I have my doubts about finding even 50 votes.


30 posted on 07/20/2010 8:40:05 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Vendome
You need 66 Senators and they are never going to find 66 senators.

67 actually, assuming there are 100 Senators present.

47 posted on 07/20/2010 11:05:50 AM PDT by matt1234 (The only crisis 0bama can manage is one he intentionally created.)
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To: Vendome
The best they might do is 62 but they would still fall short and I have my doubts about finding even 50 votes.

50 would be enough if only 75 Senators were present. Could happen, O-dark thirty session they "forget" to tell the "nays" about. (it's 2/3 of those present,not 2/3 +1). Under Art. 1 Sec. 5 it requires a majority to be present or 51 Senators, present to constitute a quorum to do business, in which case as few as 34 votes would do it.

Of course there would be Hell to Pay, and I'd hope many here would be Collecting the payment.

67 posted on 07/21/2010 10:52:57 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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They don’t need 2/3. They only need 2/3 of senators PRESENT at the time of the vote.

think about it.


79 posted on 07/22/2010 3:26:40 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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