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To: ought-six

But don’t they need 60 votes to do away with the filibuster?


49 posted on 02/14/2021 6:47:31 PM PST by mikelets456
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"But don’t they need 60 votes to do away with the filibuster?"

No, they can do it with a simple majority and have been planning to do so. That's why their propaganda effort from within con$ervative forum$ was $o intense to fool conservatives into avoiding the polls in the Georgia runoff elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

70 posted on 02/14/2021 7:24:41 PM PST by familyop
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But don’t they need 60 votes to do away with the filibuster?

If the last impeachment vote is any indication, then they have those votes. We are so effed.

121 posted on 02/15/2021 5:52:58 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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