Senate bills requiring 60 votes
[DOC File]American Government 100
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9. To end a filibuster in the Senate, requires how many votes? a) 45 votes, b) 60 votes, c) 70 votes, d) It is impossible to end a filibuster once started. 10. If a Senate filibuster is successfully defeated by achieving cloture, how many hours are left available to debate the proposed legislation? a) 24 hours, b) 30 hours, c) 45 hours, 72 ...
Submission - Inquiry into the provisions of bills to amend ...
The bills were referred to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee (the Committee) for consideration on 20 March 2002. The Department’s submission addresses each of the bills in the order in which they were introduced into the Parliament.
[DOC File]Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy ...
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In some cases, Senate rules require 3/5s supermajority to waive a pt of order. Gives senate bargaining chip in conference committee. Byrd Rule: prevents riders on omnibus budget reconciliation bills—germaneness requirements. Requires 60 votes to override the point of order raising Byrd problem. Problem: these rules are self-enforcing.
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In 1975 the Congress lowered the threshold once again, to three fifths of Congress, or 60 votes. In theory, the filibuster should have become less common as it became easier to break. Unfortunately, for the theory, between 2007 and 2010 the Senate had to call 214 cloture votes to break filibusters.
[DOC File]PPSV Summary HR 3590 (DRRC MASTER) (D0274217).DOCX
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Dec 09, 2009 · The Senate bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, contains a number of controversial provisions that politically moderate Senators warn could prevent their support for “cloture” to end debate and bring the bill to a final vote. Cloture requires 60 favorable votes.
[DOC File]Congressional Webquest - Livingston
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In 2013, the senate changed its filibuster rules by passing what was called “the Nuclear Option.” Instead of requiring 60 votes to approve many presidential appointments, this new rule required a simple majority to approve executive and judicial nominees (not Supreme Court).
[DOCX File]Action Network
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Getting to 60 would require at least 10 Republican votes. 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 ...
[DOC File]Congress
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1. Party organization. In the Senate, real leadership is in the hands of a majority leader, chosen from among the majority party, and a minority leader, chosen from the other party. The whip takes a nose count of how votes are lining up on controversial issues, keeps the party leader informed, and rounds up members for important votes.
[DOC File]RULE 6 - BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
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(h) All votes on final passage of bills and resolutions, or the Emergency Section thereof, shall be by recorded votes. Two of the Members present, a quorum being present, may demand a recorded vote on any proposition, or the Presiding Officer may order a recorded vote …
[DOCX File]senate votes - 2010 Voting Record (00285647-1).DOCX
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The Senate passed the House-Senate conference agreement on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 4173) on July 15, 2010, by a vote of 60-39 (D: 57-1; R: 3-38). A “Yes” vote in favor of the conference agreement is counted as a “Right” vote.
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