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Orrin Hatch: “Let me finish and I will be glad to. The other point--with the delegation given to me from our colleague--is that, from…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 1995
Let me finish and I will be glad to. The other point--with the delegation given to me from our colleague--is that, from your standpoint, a simple majority was not allowed to win, and that this would make it even more difficult because you would have to have 51 actual votes of the whole number here.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Discussing voting procedures and majority requirements in the Senate.

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