Senate Cloture motion on $1 Trillion pork bill passes, 61-36 [FTR: Senator Corker DOESN'T support it

http://www.cnn.com/ ^

[jessduntno]

Just reported...

[El Gato]

Your info is not correct on a simple majority because this bill raises the deficit and cannot be passed on a majority vote.

In effect that's true, but only because it would be suject to a point of order vote, which is still not the final passage vote. So yes, it needs 60 votes to get passed, but the final vote need not be by 60 votes. Except that they agreed that they'd just do a single combined cloture/final passage vote, since this vote was cloture on an amendment, not on the "base" bill. Still it will need 60 votes, to get to final passage, but I think, from reading the link you provided, that they still would only need 50 votes, if not for the agreement to do final passage and cloture in a single vote. Of course they only do that when they quite certain of getting the 60 votes.

But thanks for the link, I learned a little more, which is always a Good Thing.

In this case the "point of order" votes will be...well.. pointless, as they have agreed on requiring 60 votes anyway. Still maybe for "points" someone will require the point of order vote.

[Cheerio]

I think that we're all ready for a war these days.

We need to be ready for Civil War II - the RATS are CHANGING the country all right - did 63 Million really want to live like Europe or were they just drinking the Kool Aid?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Who are the 3 a$$hats that voted “present”?

I thought Zero couldn't vote in the Senate anymore. < /sarc>

[Fresh Wind]

Somebody set up us the Obomba.

[blam]

Mark Your Time, Hu-mans

[trumandogz]

The DEMOCRATS stole a Trillion in October...

So now, George W. Bush and Henry Paulson are Democrats?

[blam]

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[TheThinker]

Now he’ll be known as Corker the Porker.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Agreed. Welcome to Free Republic, by the way, and great handle (courtesy of DiFi?)! ;o)

[staytrue]

I think it is franken/coleman and judd gregg’s replacement.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The cloture concept isn't too difficult to understand. They pass it to prevent a filibuster from preventing the bill from advancing to the floor for final majority vote. In the old days, the filibuster actually occurred (see “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”). Now, they just say it might occur, and the cloture vote kills it.

[jessduntno]

“Wit till people find out what’s in it. DEATHCARE for the elderly and infirm.’

No one will live that long...socialized meds will kill them first...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The anger has built up to a point that revolution is on the horizon. I thing we are at a point that over half of Americans are done playing games with these Communists.

The Communist's answer? We won!

[dalereed]

What is FTR?

[jessduntno]

For The Record

[jessduntno]

This was an “evolving story” thread that began with a TV report, got correctly chaged by emerging facts and again to correct more information about Corker - the string itself has been a corker...

[dalereed]

You roo lazy to type it out!

Stick your alphabet soup up your back side!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

It Looks like Obama’s numbers are actually improving since the election. Ugh!

The sheeple are busy being stampeded into their new government cages.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Huh?

Does he have a Vote?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I thought he was Nostrilus, Destroyer of Worlds. :o)