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To: Dave346

I don’t understand what’s so sacrosanct about the super majority having to be 60% ; theoretically, why couldn’t it be another fraction, say 5/9 or 56 votes to stop cloture (the majority required in a Supreme Court decision BTW)… Or for that matter, any other number that the Senate powers that be want to make it, if you want to keep such a tradition?

Just go to what the Constitution proscribes and be done with it!


34 posted on 04/04/2017 5:09:32 PM PDT by mikrofon ( USSC Bump)
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To: mikrofon

The cloture rule in the Senate was set at 2/3rds in 1917, then reduced to 3/5ths in 1975. Of course there is nothing special about these fractions - they can be changed again by the majority at any time.

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm


35 posted on 04/04/2017 5:31:13 PM PDT by Dave346
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