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To: Jim Noble

So an override has to be an absolute 2/3 and not just 2/3 of the votes cast?

69 posted on 11/19/2015 12:23:15 PM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)

To: Genoa

So an override has to be an absolute 2/3 and not just 2/3 of the votes cast?

I don't know, but i DO know that, if the override has 289 votes in the House, all 435 Members will be voting.

70 posted on 11/19/2015 12:26:19 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)

To: Genoa

The actual language is “2/3 of that House”, which suggests that it’s 290 Representatives and 67 Senators.

71 posted on 11/19/2015 12:28:11 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)

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