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socialist_n_TN

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13. He will be in the same position as Obama UNLESS.................

Reply to wryter2000 (Reply #10)

Sat Dec 24, 2016, 12:33 PM

Dec 2016

the Republicans change the filibuster rules to majority only rather than super-majority. That could happen too. For the most part Senate rules are what a majority of the Senate wants the rules to be.

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I agree............. socialist_n_TN Dec 2016 #12

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I also agree wryter2000 Dec 2016 #22

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Trump will be in the same position as wryter2000 Dec 2016 #10

He will be in the same position as Obama UNLESS................. socialist_n_TN Dec 2016 #13

True wryter2000 Dec 2016 #21

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