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To: SharpRightTurn
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The amendment is almost certain to fail, as it would need to win two-thirds support to pass the Senate, and then would still need to move through the House and be ratified by two-thirds of the states.

31 posted on 09/09/2014 8:46:59 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

“it would need to win two-thirds support to pass the Senate”

That’s correct—67 votes. (I corrected this oversight in post 5.) Plus, it will not pass the House, and would not pass the necessary number of state legislatures.

It’s dead, Jim.

What chaps me, and the reason I posted this, is the continual enabling of leftist legislation by Republicans who vote for cloture on Dim bills knowing that even though all the Republicans later vote against the bill itself, they have ensured it will pass by their procedural vote.


35 posted on 09/09/2014 8:55:12 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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