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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:48 PM Original message |
Democrats only need 50 votes to pass a bill on the floor. No more bad deals. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. Too bad all reports can |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. Did you see this? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yeah, hard to know what he means |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Landrieu said today that she is for a trigger during her floor speech. She sounded |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Interesting..... |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. I only saw HER speech... |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Aren't there more |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Yes, but people like Lieberman may NOT suck it up for the good of the country... |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I'm sorry but that faux pious |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Don't be sorry... |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. So are we completely done with the 60 vote requirement? We |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yup, only needs 50 votes to pass in order to proceed to conference. n/t |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. But they need 60 to ALLOW the vote to take place which needs 50. n/t |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. No, this was that vote. At the end of the debate, it's an up or down vote. n/t |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. But there can't BE an up or down vote until they close debate with 60 votes. That's the vote |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Yes. The motion to end debate and proceed to a vote... |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Reid can determine when to end the debate. |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I think you're missing something. When all the amendments are done getting taken out or put in, |
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janet118 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 09:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
30. Correct . . . they need a 60 vote to close debate n/t |
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h9socialist (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. But . . . |
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h9socialist (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Not as such . . . |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. "And every amendment to the bill will require 60 votes. " |
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h9socialist (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 09:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. OK . . . |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. No: there are dozens more 60-vote cloture votes needed before the 51 vote |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. "they will need to call cloture votes in order to amend the bill" |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Of the foreseeable votes, only the motion to proceed to consideration... |
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Tank Hankerous (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. Beware the self-serving jackasses among us in the US Senate.... |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
25. They still need 60 votes for cloture of debate before they can vote on the bill. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Agree. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 10:28 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Pretty darn |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
28. Don't they need 60 for cloture? n/t |
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