DC getting their Statehood?
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PR is not garanteed to be Dem. Lot of religious conservative down there. They should still be a state regardless though.That’s what PR is for.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
I don't think that is a valid reason not to...
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I thought that’s to overcome the inevitable filibuster
but if dems somehow convince manchin to eliminate the filibuster? It’s 50 votes
PR is very conservative thoughThat’s what PR is for.
There’s talk that Kamala or Leahy could do something with the Senate parliamentarian on DC statehood in the big budget reconciliation bill currently being written in the budget committee.
Budget reconciliation only needs 51 votes
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
You need 60 votes to stop a filibuster. Bills pass the senate with 51 votes. It’s stupid and counterintuitive but the Senate is stupid and counterintuitive.
Elim Garak
Veteran
God I hope so.
i guess
but really i want four not two
To answer all this, that’s what Virgin Islands is for.....
Only a simple majority in both houses of Congress is needed for statehood.
218 votes is a simple majority in the House. 51 votes is a simple majority in the Senate. However, in the Senate, Republicans can and WILL filibuster because they obviously don't want DC to become a state.
Dems would have to eliminate the filibuster or maybe try and pass DC statehood through reconciliation.
How many times can the dems pass budget reconciliation and how many times can they blow the filibuster?
Basically, it’s limited to one spending/revenue bill per year, or per budget resolution. “Under Senate interpretations of the Congressional Budget Act, the Senate can consider the three basic subjects of reconciliation — spending, revenues, and debt limit — in a single bill or multiple bills, but it can consider each of these three in only one bill per year,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ David Reich and Richard Kogan write. “This rule is most significant if the first reconciliation bill that the Senate takes up affects both spending and revenues. Even if that bill is overwhelmingly devoted to only one of those subjects, no subsequent reconciliation bill can affect either revenues or spending because the first bill already addressed them.”
This obscure Senate rule might be Donald Trump’s best hope for passing his agenda
gldnone913
Integrity and Consistency
Lol Republicans not voting for DC to be the 51st state. It's mad black and it's a Dem stronghold. What could they use for reconciliation? PR? Guam? None of these seem like Republican heavy areas.
I want it to happen, but I don't want the Dems to burn all of their political capital on it
Don’t do pr, or u might have a replay of what happened in Florida this past year
