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To: CIDKauf

It depends. Considering the Senate bill has already been passed all it needs to do is pass the house in identical form. Then it goes to the President to sign into law.

However, the Dems don’t have anywhere near enough votes to pass the House because too many House Dems want to be re-elected in November.

Since the Democrat leadership knows this, they are trying to get a different bill passed in the House and then “reconcile” them afterward. Following this plan, they would then need to bring the new bill back up in the Senate where it would again need 60 votes. But the Dems want to bypass Senate rules and claim that it would only need 51 (because they are calling it a “budget” bill.


27 posted on 03/04/2010 12:49:10 PM PST by spinestein (The answer is 42.)
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To: spinestein

I am slowly getting better at this “tracking”, which is BS. The newest talking point is that Republicans have used this procedure (I won’t call it a rule since sticking it in your keester is also a procedure) saying both Bush tax cuts and Medicare part D were done this way (and I don’t know that for sure). I saw a tea party sign that said “Save a trillion dollars....lay Congress off now!”


28 posted on 03/04/2010 6:52:58 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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