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To: nikos1121

I don’t know. I think once a Senator takes the floor he does not have to yield it.


69 posted on 09/20/2013 3:22:18 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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I think the question we have is, once he has the floor can he pass it to someone else. I think the answer is that he risks the speaker saying “no”....

The filibuster can be stopped with 2/3 majority vote.


70 posted on 09/20/2013 3:26:15 AM PDT by nikos1121 (“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet)
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