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To: SampleMan
You left out foreign treaties, which will now sail through the Senate.

Don't treaties require a two thirds majority affirmation of the Senate to become binding upon the U.S., or did they abolish that section of the Constitution while I wasn't looking?

65 posted on 11/22/2013 8:35:21 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Don't treaties require a two thirds majority affirmation...

They only need 51 to have a quorum, so without any rules to delay a vote, they can just bring it to the floor and vote it through with 2/3 present, when only have the GOP is there.

68 posted on 11/22/2013 8:49:51 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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