Official Thread - Senate Vote on Audit the Fed 1/12/16

[65fastback2+2]

so sanders is absent....well there goes his entire campaign

 

[Tunink]

So what happens if we don't get 60?

 

[tommyrp12]

Edit 40/Yes 39/No

 

[The Gold Standard]

So what happens if we don't get 60?

Nothing. They go back to their hookers and blow on our dime.

 

[Jamesiv1]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but right now it looks like they are voting on a motion to invoke cloture - which I think simply means to end debate.

If it passes, then they proceed to vote on the bill.

 

[phill4paul]

Half way there.

 

[65fastback2+2]

bunch of aye's rolling in

 

[robertwerden]

fuck

 

[Zippyjuan]

Voting on cloture (ending debate on the issue)- not on the bill yet.

Cloture — a process for limiting debate on a measure — is the Senate's only weapon against the filibuster. The details have changed several times since its creation a century ago, but here's the rule as it stands today: cloture is invoked when three-fifths of all sworn-in senators vote for the cloture motion.

Sixty votes would be three fifths.

 

[65fastback2+2]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but right now it looks like they are voting on a motion to invoke cloture - which I think simply means to end or disallow a filibuster.

If it passes, then they proceed to vote on the bill.

this is correct, i believe.

 

[bronxboy10]

Legislation blocked

 

[garyallen59]

I hate my senator's so much.

 

[robertwerden]

Now it can be debated

 

[65fastback2+2]

Dem's are voting no to try and filibuster.

 

[65fastback2+2]

Legislation blocked

uh no

 

[grayfoxjls]

It's blocked. What a time to be a Paul supporter. This sucks.

 

[ds21089]

uh no

That's what it says on the screen

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Damnit!
Has Rand spoken yet?

 

[65fastback2+2]

Damnit!
Has Rand spoken yet?

he spoke before cloture vote.

 

[65fastback2+2]

That's what it says on the screen

I'm watching it live...nothing on the screen here.