The supermajority rule would be no bad thing if it forced the majority party to reach out to the other side.

超级多数的规则在使得多数党考虑另一方意见上的确不是一件坏事。

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His ratings are falling, and in November's mid-term elections he looks likely, at the very least, to lose his supermajority in the Senate.

他的支持率正在下降，在今年11月的中期选举中，看起来极有可能至少会失去在参院的绝对多数。

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Last month the Senate blocked a proposal for a bipartisan commission on deficit reduction: the yeas outnumbered the nays by 53 to 46, but failed to reach a supermajority.

上个月参议院挡下了一个提议要成立跨党派的委员会来削减赤字，赞成的有五十三票而反对的有四十六票，没能达到超级多数。

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Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

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(OMITTED) "They hold a supermajority in the House,the Senate, and they hold the White House.

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Yet the supermajority may not prove to be the cure-all that many Democrats hope.

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Such supermajority votes are unlikely to be forthcoming-and will grow less so over time.

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The proposed Balanced Budget Amendment would also include a supermajority requirement to raise taxes.

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