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by ViewTrick1002 135 days ago
They do. The 60 votes requirement is just a handshake agreement 50 votes + the vice president can remove at any moment.
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It's so maddening. They just decided in like 2010 they didn't want to ever do anything again.
Doing things puts you on the hook when those things fail. Politically it's much better to keep the limit in place so that you can make virtue signalling votes that are guaranteed to fail. That way you're seen as "doing something" but without having to be responsible for it.