OK, other scenario -
if cloture isn’t passed,
it requires 60 votes to amend the house bill?
“OK, other scenario -
if cloture isn’t passed,
it requires 60 votes to amend the house bill?”
If cloture isn’t passed, then the “debate” continues. And Reid and the democrats would be forced into a different plan. It would be up in the air at that point. But amendments wouldn’t necessarily require 60 votes unless agreed to by unanimous consent.