Sentences with phrase «senate by a simple majority»

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The Senate must pass the Graham - Cassidy healthcare bill by September 30 under budget reconciliation, the process that would allow it to pass with a simple majority.

Not only could such a gift to businesses be looked down upon by American voters, but it would also complicate the GOP's plan to pass tax legislation through budget reconciliation, a process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate but brings with it limitations on adding to the deficit beyond the span of a decade.

In short, the US House of Representatives votes on «Articles of Impeachment» against the president (by simple majority), and the US Senate holds a «trial» to examine the evidence and render a verdict.

According to the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Ballin (1892), Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority vote.

Now, any Senate rule can be changed by a simple majority vote (actually, it always could but no one broke the rules that way).

U.S. Senate Republicans deployed the so - called «nuclear option» and changed longstanding rules to clear the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, bypassing a precedent - breaking Democratic filibuster by allowing the nomination to go forward on a simple majority vote.

In the U.S. Senate, the Senate rules apparently do not apply to the first day of a new Senate session until the rules are voted in by a simple majority.

Currently, the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader hold enormous power to abuse the system and stop bills from coming to the floor even if they are mathematically sponsored by a simple majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the Majority Leader hold enormous power to abuse the system and stop bills from coming to the floor even if they are mathematically sponsored by a simple majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the majority of members from each house of the legislature (76 out of 150 in the Assembly and 32 out of 63 in the Senate).

And no one thinks there's any real chance that Republicans will get school choice legislation through Congress (which would require 60 votes in the Senate, rather than the simple majority required by the tax bill).

The Republican Senate passed its version by a simple majority but lacked --(audio break)

3) One other hard reality, hidden by squabbles over which side wielded a bigger portion of its giant war chest, alliances and person - hours toward climate victory or defeat, is that the issue has never had the salience that would be required to get anywhere near 60 votes in the Senate, let alone a simple majority.

The Supreme Court ruled in the Head Money Cases that «treaties» (ratified by 2/3 of the Senate as specified in Article II) have the same legal effect in US law as regular legislation passed by Congress (by a simple majority of both houses), which means that Congress can modify or repeal (insofar as US law is concerned) any «treaty» that is ratified by the Senate, by passing a later law that contradicts it, just like it can with regular legislation.

A cabinet member is nominated by the President and then presented to the Senate for confirmation or rejection by a simple majority.