To: pillut48
They still need 60 votes, right?
43 posted on
10/13/2009 9:26:41 AM PDT by
Hoodat
(For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: Hoodat
44 posted on
10/13/2009 9:31:38 AM PDT by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: Hoodat
this is the vote to get it out of the finance committee and send it to the floor - they would need 60 votes there to end debate by the entire senate and move on to the real vote by the entire senate on passage - that would need 51 votes to pass (or 50 and biden casting the extra vote for the bill)
then it would either be merged by another senate committee with all other senate bills to make one senate bill to be merged with the house bills
or
all senate bills would be merged with all house bills
that is how i understand it works
46 posted on
10/13/2009 9:40:28 AM PDT by
sloop
(pfc in the quiet civil war)
To: Hoodat
no this is a commitee vote . just a majority.
cloture is a few weeks off.
56 posted on
10/13/2009 11:26:17 AM PDT by
ncalburt
(San Fran Nan , Your Harvey Milk was gunned down by a fellow Dem-RAT)
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