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Originally Posted by nation-x
They don't have a super majority... they have 58 votes. It's only takes 40 votes to prevent cloture. In addition, in order to pass the tax cuts the debt ceiling has to be raised. It's a catch 22.
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I dont know if you know this or not, there is no 2011 budget yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Un...federal_budget
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The budget did not pass this year, the first time since 1974, and on September 30, 2010, the Congress voted on a continuing resolution, to keep the government running until December 3, 2010.
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They need to rework so the debt ceiling does not need to be raised. But they wont.
When the budget was created, they had supermajority. They could have ended the tax cuts then and lifted the debt ceiling and passed the budget.