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The minority party filibustered the CR, which makes it require 60 votes to pass instead of just a simple majority of 51 votes, and the majority party only has 5
by josephcsible 1y ago
The minority party filibustered the CR, which makes it require 60 votes to pass instead of just a simple majority of 51 votes, and the majority party only has 53 votes.
- techblueberry 1y ago> which makes it require 60 votes to pass As the senate was designed.
- dragonwriter 1y agoMinorities blocking action was not part of the Constitutional design of the Senate, and supermajority requirements for routine action were explicitly viewed by the Framers as one of the problems of the Articles of Confederation that the Constitution was aimed at resolving.