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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (537318)12/18/2009 11:05:32 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1578504
 
Granted, he's in a nearly impossible position, needing a three-fifths majority to get anything done

Since when is a 60 vote majority an "impossible" position? I thought it was pretty much always that way. I thought the 60 vote majority is what allowed us to get other sweeping reforms like Medicare and Civil Rights and pretty much everything else other than purely ministerial legislation.
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