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Re: President Trump & U.S Election 2016 Investigation
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Originally Posted by Mick
No such rule exists like that that I’m aware of. Majority leader can raise a point of order to the presiding officer that a simple majority is required, they can deny it but it is then appealed by the chair, then appealed and overturned by majority vote.
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They did something on the health care vote to allow it to pass with a sample majority. I think it might be making it a special budgetary vote.
Never mind, found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconc...ates_Congress)
So not the same thing I thought of it as but it does allow them to avoid a lot of this hassle so long as they make it a spending/budget thing and can only do so once a year.
Last edited by Damien; 23-01-2018 at 10:31.
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