Why does Obama need the sixty votes to pass the Stimulus Bill? Is it because that's what's needed

[Crazy Guggenheim]

since it's deficit spending? Another question. Is this what's going to happen with every spending bill since it's all deficit spending? :hmm:

[webhead]

Why is 60 votes needed? To prevent a Senate RePIG filibuster.

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[rightiswrong]

Love these catoons you keep posting, webhead.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

Why is 60 votes needed? To prevent a Senate RePIG filibuster.

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Here it is:

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Markup will begin in the Finance Committee on Tuesday and is expected to run through Wednesday. One scenario is that, assuming the Committee agrees to a bill to report to the floor, there will be an effort to get a floor vote during the month of July. Passage will require 60 votes -- not just a simple majority of 51 -- because Senate rules require that there be 60 votes in support of any spending that goes outside the approved budget resolution; and any increase in child care funds would be additional to what is in the budget resolution.

[webhead]

Love these catoons you keep posting, webhead.
Thanks. I am an advocate of bringing back the colonial custom of tar & feathers. However, this political 'toon is so very clever by using "TARPed" & Feathered. Great pun!

[dgdavisjr]

60 votes is not absolutely needed to shut down a Senate filibuster. Remember this rule option?

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[Sunshine]

since it's deficit spending? Another question.

Is this what's going to happen with every spending bill since it's all deficit spending? :hmm:

The Senate needed a 3/5's majority to pass the bill, that = 60 votes.

This is a Jobs Stimulus Bill.

The rethugs are calling it a "spending bill". They are idiots!!

Of course it's a spending bill ! That's how Congress stimulates
the economy... by spending/investing money, creating jobs.

The biggest "spending" in the bill was BY the REPIGS!!!