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atreides1

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2. It's a rule...rules can be changed!

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2024, 01:11 PM

Sep 2024

The procedure is not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution; it only became theoretically possible with a change of Senate rules in 1806, and was not used until 1837.

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I have always disliked him. Trueblue1968 Sep 2024 #13