Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A specified majority of votes, such as 60 percent, required to approve a motion or pass legislation.
Wiktionary
- n. any qualified majority, specified in advance of a vote, required for the vote to be passed
Examples
“Heck, if Democrats can use reconciliation, the Republican 41-vote supermajority is meaningless!”
“It might be beneficial to change the rules regarding filibuster so that a simple majority rather than a supermajority is enough to break one … but eliminating it completely is definitely not a good idea and anyone who thinks it would be is not thinking about what this could very easily mean in the long run.”
Think Progress » New poll finds more Americans in favor of eliminating the filibuster.
“The now-routine requirement that a supermajority is necessary is at variance with what the Constitution sets as a norm.”
“Nor does the US Constitution endorse the idea that a supermajority is required to end debate in the US Senate.”
Durbin (D, D Majority) vs. Durbin (D, R Majority) on filibusters. | RedState
“The idea that the ‘progressive’ agenda will be in jeopardy if the Dems lose their supermajority is farcical.”
“He won't even tells us what Democratic Member out of our 60-vote supermajority is threatening to stand with Republican's to hold the public option hostage!”
“The 60% supermajority is unfair and harder for rural areas than urban areas to pass.”
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“Rumors on this page seem to indicate that getting rid of the supermajority is well on its way.”
“Kilgore has returned his opinion, which holds that the supermajority is not necessary, because, he writes, “public highways belong entirely to the public at large.””
“So this puts you into the first of a series of contradictions: either the Senate cannot write its own rules in a binding way, or else you’re flat-out wrong that a supermajority is necessarily unConstitutional.”
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