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To: cotton1706
It does not take 51 votes to end debate. You have no source for that. You're making things up.
cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.

40 posted on 09/30/2018 6:01:39 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

I am not making anything up. This is basic legislative operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_(parliamentary_procedure)

On Friday, the US Senate by unanimous consent proceeded to debate the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. They cannot move to vote on the nomination until they end the debate on the nomination, which requires a majority (because they changed the rules) or by unanimous consent (which all the democrats won’t allow, at least one will object).


43 posted on 09/30/2018 6:14:32 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: lasereye

Also reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloture


47 posted on 09/30/2018 6:19:11 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: lasereye

Didn’t Harry Reid reduce that to simple majority for appointments, leaving it at 60 for regular legislation?


57 posted on 09/30/2018 7:22:23 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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