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To: SampleMan

Treaties have always required a super-majority vote. I believe that is directly in the Constitution - not subject to Senate rules.


69 posted on 11/22/2013 8:58:09 AM PST by Tandem (What ever happened to personal responsibility & self-reliance?)
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To: Tandem

They only need 51 to have a quorum, so without any rules to delay a vote, they can just bring it to the floor and vote it through with ~40 votes when only a few GOP senators are there. That gives them a 2/3 Senate vote.


73 posted on 11/22/2013 11:00:01 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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