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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShouldn't the "skinny repeal" have required 60 votes anyway?
I mean, it wasn't a budget matter but a social policy one.... thus the budget reconciliation process should not have applied?
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Shouldn't the "skinny repeal" have required 60 votes anyway? (Original Post)
Goodheart
Jul 2017
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dawg
(10,621 posts)1. Well, that's a moo point now.
You know, like a cow would make.
Goodheart
(5,308 posts)2. I guess the days of filibustering are over.
dawg
(10,621 posts)3. Republicans can still filibuster.
We just aren't allowed to. Didn't you get the memo?
Johonny
(20,820 posts)4. It would have gone to conference as well
where the house was planning to stick crap the senate wouldn't vote for back in it.
unblock
(52,126 posts)5. the fear was that it would *not* go to conference and the house would pass it as is
precisely to avoid any further disagreement with the senate.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)6. I think the skinny repeal only included items that didn't need 60 votes
That is one reason it was so skinny.