[Free the USA]

Article 1 section 5 of the U.S Constitution allows the Senate to set it’s own rules for proceeding. The Sixty-vote rule to overcome a filibuster has been a fixture of the Senate as long as I can remember. It has been customary for the Majority leader to refrain from bring up bills that have no chance of overcoming a filibuster. Why waste time to debate a bill that will never reach a vote? There are rules for forcing the Majority leaders hand but what Dashle is doing is no different than what all Majority leaders do.

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Well, then why have the rule that it would only take a siple majority to pass a bill when 60% would have to agree to vote on it in the first place?