Majority Isnt Enough News Today

There is a senate rule that says a majority isnt enough. you dont need 50 votes or 51 votes. you need 60 votes to pass stuff in the senate. and frankly, there arent 60 senators who would vote to declare today monday let alone 60 senators who would vote to pass most important legislation. republicans just wont do it. even on things like voting rights, the foundation of our democracy, there is like one republican senator lisa murkowski who says maybe shell vote with democrats maybe on one voting r...

House. in the senate, though, democrats also have the majority there barely. it is a 100-seat senate. there are 50 senators on the democratic side, 50 on the republican side. if everybody votes party line and there is a 50/50 tie, the person who breaks the tie in the senate is the vice president. she is a democrat. so that gives the democrats effectively 51 votes so thats the narrowest possible democratic majority but it is a majority in the senate. the problem for the democrat is that even thou...

But it is a majority. the problem for the democrats is that even though stuff can pass the house. thank you slim democratic majority, thank you nancy pelosi. democratic bills, by a large cant pass the senate. because even though democrats can of their slim majority in the senate, it its in enough. there is a senate rule that says a majority isnt enough. you dont need 50 votes or 51 votes. you need 60 votes to pass stuff in the senate. and frankly, there arent 60 senators who would vote to declar...

Were just going to stay on it and if they dont vote for it today, were going to stay on it until they vote for something. were going to keep pushing. >> the presidents american jobs act got a majority vote in the united states senate tonight. a majority isnt enough. republicans have succeeded in stopping the bill in its tracks on a procedural vote that required 60 votes to advance the bill. the bill includes a large cut in payroll taxes that would leave more take home pay in workers pockets, spe...

Were going to keep pushing. >> the presidents american jobs act got a majority vote in the united states senate tonight. a majority isnt enough. republicans have succeeded in stopping the bill in its tracks on a procedural vote that required 60 votes to advance the bill. the bill includes a large cut in payroll taxes that would leave more take home pay in workers pockets, spendable income and make it cheaper for employers to hire new workers. the bill also extends unemployment benefits and provi...

And if they dont vote for it today, were going to stay on it until they vote for something. were going to keep pushing. >> the presidents american jobs act got a majority vote in the united states senate tonight. a majority isnt enough. republicans have succeeded in stopping the bill in its tracks on a procedural vote that required 60 votes to advance the bill. the bill includes a large cut in payroll taxes that would leave more take home pay in workers pockets, spendable income and make it chea...

>> the senate is an up usual place. the only legislative body in the world that majority isnt enough. it takes 60 votes to do most things. to give an example, the healthcare bill passed 60-40, 60 democrats and 40 republicans the if scott brown had been elected thee weeks earlier it wouldnt have passed. what we have now with 47 is the ability to be at the table or block an idea or if its salvageable to ensure that its a compromise worked out in a way acceptable. >> bret: you say 47 because you as...