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Sat Dec-19-09 12:28 AM
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When and if this bill comes out of the Senate, and into conference, how many votes are required? |
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:33 AM
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1. For final passage, 51. |
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:34 AM
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2. The motion in the Senate to proceed to the consideration... |
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...to the conference committee report is privileged, and hence can't be filibustered, but the motion to approve the conference report is an ordinary piece of Senate business, and is subject to filibuster.
The House, because it doesn't have the tradition, embedded in a rule, of unlimited debate, doesn't have filibusters.
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:59 AM
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3. Either the house or the Senate can vote to send the report back to the Committee... |
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But once one of them votes to apporve the report, the comitte is disolved and the other other has to either accept or reject it.
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Sat Dec-19-09 11:56 AM
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4. But the motion to accept or reject isn't privileged, and debate is unlimited, |
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Edited on Sat Dec-19-09 11:57 AM by Davis_X_Machina
as per Congressional Research Service: The consideration of a conference report is highly privileged, and, after it is read, a conference report may be called up for consideration at almost any time another matter is not pending. A motion to proceed to the consideration of a conference report is not debatable. The conference report itself, however, is debatable, and consideration follows normal Senate procedures. There will be one more filibuster, and one more cloture vote.
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