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That's exactly how the system was designed to work-- a feature, not a bug, to let hot issues simmer down before passage.
by newbie12 14y ago
That's exactly how the system was designed to work-- a feature, not a bug, to let hot issues simmer down before passage.
- Steko 14y agoActually no supermajorities were not in the Senate by design. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Cloture_Voting%2C_United_States_Senate%2C_1947_to_2008.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Cloture_V...
- culturestate 14y agoHe means that the framers' idea was that the Senate should moderate the House, which is true.