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To: Yo-Yo

Can you help a novice understand how the filibuster works? So if say in September we get a good spending bill, but only 51 votes, the Democrats can filibuster. But what does that mean? They can hold up the bill for how long? Forever?


42 posted on 05/04/2017 10:33:08 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee
From the horse's ... mouth:

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

43 posted on 05/04/2017 10:46:32 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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