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To: Alberta's Child

Stop making things up. It takes 60 votes in the Senate.


9 posted on 01/09/2019 12:35:41 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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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: Sacajaweau
"Stop making things up. It takes 60 votes in the Senate."

I am not positive, but I believe that the 60 vote thing was a Senate rule, changeable by majority Senate vote.

22 posted on 01/09/2019 12:54:49 PM PST by matthew fuller (https://patriotpost.us/alexander/13407-the-battle-of-athens-tennessee)
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