On the recordFebruary 2, 2016
a budget point of order against an appropriations bill that blows through the budget that this Committee has gotten passed is a useless effort because it gets overcome by a 60-vote vote.
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Whitehouse critiques the effectiveness of budget points of order in the Senate.
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