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Can the Senate rescind Obama's health care with only a simple majority?
Obama Care passed with a simple majority in the Senate using the miss applied rules of reconciliation. Why can it not be rescinded by the same simple majority?
5 Answers
- Show Me The Doh!Lv 69 years ago
I know up till now all the votes required 60 votes to pass, Making it a 3/5 majority.
I also think to rescind a law requires a super majority of 2/3.
Three-fifths majority
In the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority is required to bring out a vote of cloture, to end a filibuster. In Rhode Island, USA a three-fifths majority of the Rhode Island General Assembly is required to overturn a veto. In New York, a three-fifths majority is required to pass most tax increases.
Two-thirds majority
A two-thirds majority is a potentially ambiguous supermajoritarian requirement in some elections, especially if minority rights can be changed (e.g., constitutional amendments). There are two kinds of two-thirds majority: the simple or the absolute.
An unqualified or simple two-thirds majority requires that the number of votes in favour must be at least twice the number of votes against. Abstaining votes or neutral votes are not considered in a simple two-thirds majority.
An absolute two-thirds majority requires that at least two-thirds of the entire membership of a body vote in favor.
Source(s): The solution is right, it is a tax and can easily be changed, Forgot about that. The only way to keep it is by denying Cons the Whitehouse, forever. - sheldonlinkerLv 69 years ago
The rules of reconciliation apply to floor rules. Once things come to a vote, no matter how they got there, only the vote counts. With BHO as president, it would have to be 51 voting in the senate for repeal, 228 in the house voting for repeal, BHO rejecting it, then revoting in the senate with 2/3, and revoting in the house with 2/3. Once you get Romney in, simple majorities will do. However, if BHO's theory of presidential orders holds sway, then the next president can just issue an order declaring that for the next 4 years, we'll completely ignore the law.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
Sorry, @Jack B, but you are incorrect, Sir.
For 2 reasons:
First, it is a TAX, therefore it is simple fiscal stuff and will only require a simple majority.
Secondly, the Asker is correct, we can do teh Reconciliation, just as easily.
We are not overriding a Veto or such.
We only need to take a couple of seats in the Senate and oust Mr. Obama and your Holy Grail - Healthcare will no longer be able to SINK our Country.
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