60 vote threshold to advance most legislation

    • [DOC File]Washington Report - July, 2002

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      The legislation would provide beneficiaries a choice of at least two competing plans. The Tripartisan proposal would be permanently set in the Medicare statute. ... Medicaid Changes Advance. ... his colleagues to go along with him to waive the budget and allow consideration of his proposal thereby exceeding the 60 vote threshold necessary to ...


    • Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 - Legislation

      58 60 Purpose of rules in this Subdivision 5. 58 65 Choice of method to work out cost of privatised asset 5. 58 70 Application of Division 40 5. 58 75 Meaning of notional written down value 6. 58 80 Meaning of undeducted pre existing audited book value 8. 58 85 Pre existing audited book value of depreciating asset 9


    • Minutes - NARFE

      2017 Convention Advance $ 300.00. 2016 Convention Fee & Banquet (2) $ 338.00 ... which typically requires the approval of 60 Senators for legislation to proceed. While just convincing a majority in each chamber to support legislation is a difficult task, the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is the main backstop against partisan legislation ...


    • [DOCX File]VIEWPOINT #2

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      in 1917. The recent use of the filibuster — an attempt by a minority of lawmakers to delay or block a vote on a bill or confirmation — has exploited this rule, forcing virtually all Senate business to require 60 of the 100 senators’ votes to proceed. This means a simple majority is not enough to advance even the most bipartisan legislation.


    • [DOCX File]actionnetwork.org

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      In the current political climate, there is no realistic path to garnering 60 votes for priorities like climate change, infrastructure, income inequality, gun control, democracy, and voting rights. Even if Democrats flip the 3 or 4 seats required to take back control of the Senate, getting to 60 would still require at least 9 Republican votes.


    • [DOC File]Washington Report –November/December, 2010

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      Under the Senate’s rules, Senators opposed to the legislation up for consideration have the ability to filibuster. Although most legislation only needs a simple majority to pass, it takes 60 votes to end debate on a bill in the U.S. Senate.


    • [DOCX File]Valley Unitarian Universalist

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      The system gets far more complicated if “threshold” counting is used. If the election is to choose, for example, two from the field of several candidates and there are 100 voters, then the “threshold” is 1/3 plus one vote, which would be 34 votes needed to be chosen. This may seem odd, but the reasoning is simple: Suppose . that . a


    • [DOC File]OVER 100 COMMENTARIES ON THE IMPORTANCE

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      Under the Senate's Rule 22, 60 votes are required to cut off debate on a pending nomination and to bring the Senate to a vote on confirmation. Republicans find this blatantly unconstitutional, since it raises the de facto threshold for confirmation to a supermajority of the Senate's …


    • [DOCX File]actionnetwork.org

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      Garnering 60 votes for progressive legislation that takes on Wall Street, oil and gas, or big Pharma is all the more difficult when you consider that it can cost more than $50 million to win a U.S. Senate seat, favoring the election of wealthy, self-financed candidates and those who are most successful at rubbing shoulders with and raising ...


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      Our Board recommends that shareholders vote to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers (“Named Executives”) as described in this Proxy Statement (“say-on-pay vote”), for the reasons below. We received 96% say-on-pay vote support at our 2018 Annual Meeting.


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