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Originally Posted by rock steady
Cloture votes are based on all senators "duly elected" so 60 is the threshold regardless of who is present.
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your wrong!!!
"3/5ths of the Senate (60 out of 100 Senators elected and sworn)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
if 58 vote yey and 38 vote nay and 4 sit out the vote that is 58 + 38 =96 >>> 58/96 = 3/5th who voted.
Thats exactly why we didn't need 218 votes to win it in the house! we won it with 216-198 (1/2+) we were actually 17 votes above the needed! cause some reps didn't vote!
If you don't know the facts why assume?