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Javaman

(65,048 posts)
2. Yup. Schumer is a senator.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 07:04 PM
Nov 9

At the moment the house is out for all the reasons we know

8if Jeffries is against it, it’s dead in the water.

Music Man

(1,663 posts)
6. What makes you say it's dead in the water because Jeffries is against it?
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 08:00 PM
Nov 9

If the Republicans are for it, it just takes a simple majority in the House.

Polybius

(21,392 posts)
7. No
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 09:49 PM
Nov 9

They don't need a single D vote to pass it in the House, since it's a simple majority.

Javaman

(65,048 posts)
13. The other Dems in the senate.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 10:33 PM
Nov 9

Why are you being so obtuse?

Look we’re done. I see that you just think he did a great job.

Have at it.

W_HAMILTON

(10,016 posts)
16. These are a handful of senators that went and did their own thing.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:52 PM
Nov 10

Who, as minority leader, do you think could have prevented that?

Spoiler alert: there is no one.

If you think there was someone that this group would have listened to, why the fuck wasn't that person telling them to vote against this in the first place?

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