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simple majority

noun

  1. 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.
  2. less than half the number of voters registered.


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The upside to this, though, is that such emergencies can be terminated by simple majority votes in Congress.

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Thus, anytime a party controls all three branches of government, it can push through tax legislation with only a simple majority.

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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.

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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.

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The review act allows lawmakers to reverse government rules drafted within a certain window with a simple majority.

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