Normally, a majority vote - two-thirds of the vote - would be enough to elect the president.
Under this hard budget constraint, the rest of the government would have to live on whatever revenues are left over after debt service and Social Security benefits are paid unless Congress is willing to vote for more new borrowing, by super-majority vote if it wants to increase the debt more than the economy is growing.
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The proposed New York legislation includes an escape valve, but it requires a super-majority vote (60%) to raise taxes by more than 2% in a year.
Borrowing more money would remain an option, if Congress votes to do so, by super-majority vote providing it wants to borrow an amount that would cause the debt to grow as a share of GDP.
Additionally, Congress should provide that when it next comes time to raise the debt limit, a super-majority vote of both Houses of Congress will be required to raise the debt ceiling by a percentage greater than the rate the economy is growing.
Nor do we expect pro-growth structural reforms such as repeal of the 1974 budget and impoundment act, the line item veto, pay-go rules to require spending cuts to offset proposed spending increases, scoring reform, or a super-majority vote to pass new entitlements.
But peers agreed by a 21-vote majority to remove the relevant clause from the bill.
But the Lords amendment, passed with a massive 131-vote majority, short circuits those delicate discussions.
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi lost his one-vote majority after a dissenting MP voted against a budget bill.
Because the bill requires changes to California tax law, its passage requires a two-thirds majority vote .
The state's otherwise puny Republicans have the power to block tax increases, which require a two-thirds majority vote.
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Thus, a two-thirds majority vote needed for a guilty verdict has never been a likely outcome of the trial.
The British Prime Minister wants a nine-vote majority in the 15-member Security Council as a shield against his Labour Party critics.
The Lib Dems held the seat with a 3, 864-vote majority in 2010.
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi lost his one-vote majority after a dissenting MP reportedly voted against the budget bill in protest over transport reforms.
Also, their influence is credited with electing a Republican to Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, dropping the Democrats below the filibuster-proof 60-vote majority and demoralizing them.
So it might seem logical that Senate Democrats, with their 60-vote majority, would include a public option in the bill that's headed for the Senate floor.
But peers agreed by a 21-vote majority to remove the relevant clause from the Crime and Courts Bill, during report stage of the legislation on 27 November 2012.
Senate Democrats are ginning up their own procedural workaround that would allow them to approve health care with a simple 51-vote majority instead of the 60 votes normally needed to forestall a Republican filibuster.
Changing the constitution, which is necessary to allow foreign companies to take a stake in the country's ample hydrocarbon reserves and for Pemex to enter into joint ventures, requires a two-thirds majority vote in Congress.
With the constant threat of the filibuster against almost any piece of legislation, almost every bill requires a 60-vote super majority in the Senate.
Once Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty certifies Franken's election certificate, Democrats will have the 60-vote super majority needed to break a filibuster in the Senate.
After years of virtuous pleading for more decisions by majority vote in Euro-councils, the chancellor shocked his partners by what seemed like a sharp change of tack.
Five Democrats joined the Republican majority in the 244-185 vote.
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The Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard just managed to squeak out a two-vote parliamentary majority in lower-house elections, and only then by horse trading with a few independents.
The best Daschle will probably get is a one-vote Republican majority on committees instead of the current two, and more influence over legislation that gets to the floor for a vote.
We also note that Netflix is one of the few companies that continues to ignore the fact that the shareholders have strongly expressed their wishes through a majority vote to de-stagger its board.
After three Republicans -- Jeffords, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voted for the amendment -- Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, changed his vote in favor of the measure, saying he hoped to come back later with a GOP counterproposal.
It was suggesting a unanimous vote on certain financial-services issues, rather than the qualified majority vote.
Cap and trade legislation is now widely considered dead in the U.S. Senate, after failing to secure anything close to the sixty-vote super-majority needed to clear the chamber.
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