A US Senate seat won by a Republican, Saxby Chambliss, in Georgia has ended Democrats’ hopes of a “super majority”: 60 seats would have put them in a position to stop any Republican use of a filibuster to block legislation. The Democrats now have 58 seats in the Senate, with only one race still to be decided, in Minnesota, but they needed 60 for a super majority.

Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 3 December 2008 at 7:59 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 3 December 2008.

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