Article 96 would be changed to a simple majority vote within each Diet chamber.
Each senator has a single vote, and the next vice president would be chosen by a simple majority vote.
The House, by a simple majority vote, must approve the articles of impeachment and convey them to the Senate.
Although it takes two-thirds of legislators to pass a tax increase, fees could be increased by a simple majority vote.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
Yet it's difficult to imagine any proposal from Frist that would not entail an eventual up or down, simple majority vote on judicial nominees.
Is this the reason that it is being offered as an executive agreement, which requires a simple majority vote of both houses of Congress?
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It would make a lot more sense to allow local voters to finance more school spending (or other spending) with a simple majority vote.
But under Senate rules, a simple majority vote would have opened the measure to up to 30 hours of debate, which would have meant inspecting the details.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer acknowledged in his afternoon briefing that Bush was speaking of a simple majority vote in the Senate, should the bill be brought up for a vote.
Parliament could be dissolved early only if no government could be formed within 14 days of a simple majority vote of no confidence, or if two-thirds of MPs voted to trigger a general election.
With McConnell up for re-election in 2014, he is considered unlikely to risk angering the party's conservative base by supporting a compromise or allowing one to pass on a simple majority vote that would need no GOP backing, sources said.
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The bill also sets out that Parliament could be dissolved early only if no government could be formed within 14 days of a simple majority vote of no confidence, or if two-thirds of MPs voted to trigger a general election.
One very senior unionist source suggested to me that if a poll reaffirmed Northern Ireland's position in the UK, it should be up to a simple majority vote within the assembly to decide when and whether a future referendum might be held.
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After all, the Republicans can use their simple majority to force a vote on the findings of fact.
Senate Democrats are ginning up their own procedural workaround that would allow them to approve health care with a simple 51-vote majority instead of the 60 votes normally needed to forestall a Republican filibuster.
To avoid a runoff, Correa needed a simple majority or 40 percent of the vote plus a 10-point margin over the No. 2 vote-getter.
And he stressed that the existing threshold for a no-confidence vote would remain as a simple majority of 50% plus one.
The motion would require only a simple majority to pass, rather than the two-thirds vote needed to approve the impeachment articles.
But the 1996 reform that empowered the Trife as the final arbiter of any election is far superior to what came before, where a simple majority of the lower house of Congress sufficed to declare a vote valid.
Democrats hold a 55-45 advantage in the Senate and would have the votes to confirm Hagel on a simple majority, but they would need five Republican votes for the 60-vote threshold to break a GOP filibuster.
More than half the Senate voted against the CTBT, and if the ABM treaty were brought to a vote today, it too would fail to win a simple majority, let alone the 88 votes it garnered 27 years ago.
Hearings before the mid-terms would, it is true, allow the Senate to vote when the Democrats can still generally rely on mustering a simple majority.
The concept is simple: If no candidate receives a majority on the initial ballot, then the top two vote-getters face off in a run-off.
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