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simple majority
noun
- less than half of the total votes cast but more than the minimum required to win, as when there are more than two candidates or choices.
- less than half the number of voters registered.
Example Sentences
The upside to this, though, is that such emergencies can be terminated by simple majority votes in Congress.
Thus, anytime a party controls all three branches of government, it can push through tax legislation with only a simple majority.
While one Republican senator saying that they don’t want to cut Medicaid won’t be enough to sink the GOP budget, which only requires a simple majority in the Senate, Hall said that his movement on the issue is instructive.
Schumer, along with a number of other Democratic senators, plan to back cloture on the Republican CR, meaning that the GOP could pass the measure with a simple majority, waving through a budget that all but one Democrat in the House rallied against.
The review act allows lawmakers to reverse government rules drafted within a certain window with a simple majority.
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