So if there were three Cambodian and two U.N. judges, then the ruling would require a "super majority" of four.
With the constant threat of the filibuster against almost any piece of legislation, almost every bill requires a 60-vote super majority in the Senate.
Once Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty certifies Franken's election certificate, Democrats will have the 60-vote super majority needed to break a filibuster in the Senate.
If they get an Assembly super majority to match the Senate Super majority they now have, California will get just what those Democrats want.
But a super majority of 60 votes in the 100-member Senate is required to pass the motion, and Democrats only have 51, plus two independents who generally vote with the party.
As a result, these sorts of proposals would be unlikely to command majority support, let alone the super-majority the Constitution requires to ratify New START.
The two believe they have a majority of the members behind the plan, but concede they are still short of a "super-majority" needed to send the plan onto Congress for its consideration.
Only a super-majority of 60 Senate votes can override the need for offsets.
More broadly, he fails to draw clear lines around which civil liberties would remain inviolable regardless of the super-majority in Congress.
During that interim, Congress would be welcome to draft a super-majority counter-plan that would be listed on the same final ballot.
If Congress can agree via super-majority on a comprehensive, cohesive plan, then that would be added to the run-off referendum alongside the two primary winners.
The proposed New York legislation includes an escape valve, but it requires a super-majority vote (60%) to raise taxes by more than 2% in a year.
Cap and trade legislation is now widely considered dead in the U.S. Senate, after failing to secure anything close to the sixty-vote super-majority needed to clear the chamber.
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And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.
But that also requires a super-majority, and Republicans balked again.
No, maybe those individuals are wavering, but the evidence is clear that a super-majority of African-Americans, including Christians, are clear as to which candidate they are voting for in November.
Borrowing more money would remain an option, if Congress votes to do so, by super-majority vote providing it wants to borrow an amount that would cause the debt to grow as a share of GDP.
Additionally, Congress should provide that when it next comes time to raise the debt limit, a super-majority vote of both Houses of Congress will be required to raise the debt ceiling by a percentage greater than the rate the economy is growing.
Nor do we expect pro-growth structural reforms such as repeal of the 1974 budget and impoundment act, the line item veto, pay-go rules to require spending cuts to offset proposed spending increases, scoring reform, or a super-majority vote to pass new entitlements.
As more fully detailed in my earlier commentaries, following a primary in which the electorate would designate the two favored proposals through the two largest votes, Congress would then be given a period of time, say 90 days, to promulgate its own bicameral, super-majority legislation.
The argument, based on the bitter experience of 2009, went like this: Better to have 54 or 55 Democrats who might actually want to get something done than to worry about building a super-majority on the "strength" of conservative members who enthusiastically support unnecessary wars, free trade and misguided domestic economic policies.
Under this hard budget constraint, the rest of the government would have to live on whatever revenues are left over after debt service and Social Security benefits are paid unless Congress is willing to vote for more new borrowing, by super-majority vote if it wants to increase the debt more than the economy is growing.
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The ad from the House Majority PAC, a leading Democratic super PAC, takes a similar tack.
Although the majority of the Fijian backline played in the Super 12 this season, Raiwalui warned his country's World Cup chances would be defined by their pack.
The vast majority of tax scholars and policy experts agree that awarding a super-low tax rate to this one form of labor income is completely unjustified as a policy matter.
It's a book that deserves to be read and debated by all sides of the spectrum as it speaks to a concern that the majority of Americans can share: If money makes you a "super citizen"--someone who is more aggressively engaged in politics, more able to place your children in the right schools, the right circles, the right non-paying internships--are we headed toward plutocracy, irrespective of party allegiances?
By becoming a thought leader, which for the greater majority of accounting firms is the optimal business development methodology, you can seriously super-charge your practice.
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