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To: Sacajaweau; MountainWalker
It takes 60 votes in the Senate.

The author is 100% right on this. If the Republicans wanted the wall, they would pass it through a reconciliation process that only needed 51 votes.

McConnell has held the line on requiring 60 votes because he doesn't even have 50 votes.

19 posted on 01/09/2019 12:47:57 PM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: Alberta's Child

McConnell has held the line on requiring 60 votes because he doesn't even have 50 votes.


Bears repeating.
26 posted on 01/09/2019 1:07:02 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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