Only 59 Votes Required for Cloture in the Senate

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Since the Democratic-Republican Party has refused to seat Senator Al
Franken, they are using the fact that they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate
as an excuse to not give us the health care that we need.  The current rules
call for a 3/5 majority to invoke cloture.  3/5 of 99 is 59.4.

Only 59 votes are needed to invoke cloture when there are only 99 senators.
The emperor has not a stitch.  This is just a charade.  When will you get
angry?

have a peaceful day,

Bill

In 1975, the Democratic Senate
majority<http://highboldtage.wordpress.com/wiki/94th_United_States_Congress>,
having achieved a net gain of four seats in the 1974 Senate
elections<http://highboldtage.wordpress.com/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections...>to
a strength of 61 (with an additional Independent caucusing with them
for
a total of 62), reduced the necessary supermajority to three-fifths (60 out
of 100). However, as a compromise to those who were against the revision,
the new rule also changed the requirement for determining the number of
votes needed for a cloture motion’s passage from those Senators “present and
voting” to those Senators “duly chosen and sworn”. Thus, 60 votes for
cloture would be necessary regardless of whether every Senator voted. The
only time a lesser number would become acceptable is when a Senate seat is
vacant. (For example, if there were two vacancies in the Senate, thereby
making 98 Senators “duly chosen and sworn”, it would only take 59 votes for
a cloture motion to pass.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloture