Thursday, September 20, 2007

I didn't know this

Now you need 60 votes in the Senate

Apparently the Democrats agreed to a new Senate rule that requires bills to gain a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority to move forward. WTF?

So the GOP is filibustering without having to do the filibustering. What is going on? Can anyone explain?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I don't believe that there is any such rule. Sixty + votes are needed to overcome a filibuster so there is need for 60+ votes to overcome the filibuster and thereby pass some of the more controversial (by R standards) pieces of legislation.

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