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10. The senate sets the rules before each session

Fri Mar 31, 2017, 08:53 PM

Mar 2017

the majority party comes up with the rules each time and they're confirmed by vote of the senate.

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You're making an assumption... stopwastingmymoney Mar 2017 #11

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