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riversedge

(70,299 posts) Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:44 PM Jan 2019

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Third GOP senator to break with party, vote to reopen government without border wall funding (We got

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Third GOP senator to break with party, vote to reopen government without border wall funding (We got (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2019 OP

What do we need? Is it 8 more for veto proof majority? Squinch Jan 2019 #1

More then 8 needed! atreides1 Jan 2019 #3

Sorry, you're right. 2/3 or 67 votes. Squinch Jan 2019 #4

We'd need a total of 13 Republican senators to break a filibuster... regnaD kciN Jan 2019 #2

Squinch

(51,004 posts)

1. What do we need? Is it 8 more for veto proof majority?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:49 PM

Jan 2019

atreides1

(16,093 posts)

3. More then 8 needed!

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:53 PM

Jan 2019

47 Democrats + 3 Republicans = 50

Still need 17 more Republicans for a veto proof majority...not likely to happen!

Squinch

(51,004 posts)

4. Sorry, you're right. 2/3 or 67 votes.

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:56 PM

Jan 2019

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)

2. We'd need a total of 13 Republican senators to break a filibuster...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:53 PM

Jan 2019

...and 20 of them to overrule a Presidential veto.

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