The cloture motion on the laughably named Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 (S 2349) failed as expected.
The motion was designed to balk the (perhaps now moot) Schumer Dubai Ports amendment (non-germane amendments to bill under cloture are barred - and Schumer's was non-germane on an epic scale!)
The final score was 51-47. The Dems were solid, for once (two GOP plus (procedurally) Frist making up the numbers, Inouye not voting - is he sick?).
The conundrum is this: why did the vote need (according to the roll call page) a two-thirds majority? Only changes to Senate rules needed such a majority, I thought.
I've scanned the cloture section of Riddick's but can find no reference to a 2/3rds majority except in connection with changes to the rules.
If anyone can put me out of my misery on this, I'd be most grateful!
[It's occurred to me that it might be a typo. The fact that Frist fell short even of a 3/5ths majority means that one can't tell from the evidence of the numbers. (Obviously if he'd got to 62, but the page still said he'd lost, that would tend to confirm the 2/3rds reference.)]
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