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With all Senate Republicans on board, it was initially unclear whether they would be able to get enough Democrats to advance the bill and beat the filibuster's 60-vote threshold.
In the Senate, they'll be able to throw up roadblocks to legislation they oppose by using the filibuster to create a 60-vote threshold to pass most bills – except the party-line reconciliation ...
Thune's speech Friday afternoon is not the first time that he has made a commitment to uphold the Senate's 60-vote threshold, which Democrats unsuccessfully attempted to sidestep to pass voting ...
The near-60-vote Senate majority that Democrats held throughout the 111th Congress was also critical to passage of other major Obama initiatives, including the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (passed 60–38, with three Republicans voting "Yea"), [72] and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (passed 60 ...
A critical mass of Democrats would have to join with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold required to advance most legislation in the Senate, a major constraint on the chamber’s new GOP ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has pushed for a two-bill strategy in order to quickly deliver on Trump's priorities while they work out the kinks of an in-depth tax bill.
On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting. [2] [6] [7]
The Senate filibuster rule, which requires a 60-vote threshold to end debate and pass most types of legislation in the upper chamber, is seen as the best chance Democrats have at blocking the ...