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The senate rules change regularly. They vote on them at the beginning of each session, IE every 2 years. The 60 person threshold, I believe, was put in by the D's several years ago to end debates and was considered the nuclear option. It was higher before that. They did it to stop the filibusters that Republicans threatened and to help push through things like the ACA.
Jim, my friend, funny you might elect to use the word conduct.
The noun is foreign if not anathema to the Dims.
The verb is IMO stricken from their vocabulary when it came to many critical domestic and international issues. Indeed, instead they abdicated then b1tched loudly and longly about the outcome.
For shame.
AMF
Big fella, I wasn't faulting you.Yes, maybe it's part of their victim mentality.
More sage words from Schumer: "Our challenge is too entrenched for mere tweeting. Making America great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. With all due respect, America cannot afford a Twitter presidency."
Which reminds me of:
1. #BringBackOurGirls; and
2. While Trump will tweet foreign policy from the Oval Office, Schumbag will never rise above being Harry Reid's successor, to carry on his despicable legacy from the Senate floor. (I avoided using "conduct").
Big fella, I wasn't faulting you.
Instead I was leveraging your use of a very good word. It gave me pause for thought. Thank you.
You were and are spot on.
RBG needs to find a way off the bench, so that she can be replaced.
...as opposed to under a bridge...We can always hope that she likes to sleep under her pillow.
“We are not going to settle on a Supreme Court nominee," Schumer said Tuesday in an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
"If they don’t appoint someone who’s really good, we’re gonna oppose him tooth and nail.
"It's hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump chooses that would get Republican support that we could support."