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Jun 28, 2018 · However, when it came time to confirm Gorsuch in 2017, near-unified Democratic opposition and the GOP's own slim majority of 51 Republican senators made getting to a 60-vote supermajority...
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Mar 1, 2024 · McConnell alone did not create the “60-vote Senate” — the expectation that a Senate majority must always secure supermajority support to advance its policy agenda. But as Senate...
Nov 16, 2022 · CNN — Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell won a secret-ballot leadership election after days of finger-pointing over the Republican midterm losses, putting him on pace to become the...
McConnell invoked the nuclear option to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, after his predecessor Harry Reid had previously eliminated the filibuster for all other presidential nominations; Trump subsequently won confirmation battles on Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett for the ...
Nov 4, 2020 · Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has defeated Democratic challenger Amy McGrath in the 2020 battle for his Kentucky US Senate seat. Even with McGrath’s stunning fundraising numbers and...
Jul 6, 2021 · There’s a push to add justices to the Supreme Court so as to counteract the conservative majority McConnell helped forge, and to do away with a filibuster rule that requires 60 of the...
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Nov 3, 2020 · A bare majority in the Senate is 51 votes — that’s the simple majority senators can use to pass a bill. But the real magic number is 60. That’s the supermajority vote that allows the majority...
