Otherwise it's a simple majority. And that continues to be the case under the Senate rules today. It's just that we think of The 60 vote cloture standard is not synonymous with the threshold needed to pass [a bill]. it is not. The reason we talk about this and the reason I contrast the what I call the real filibuster, the talking filibuster against the zombie filibuster, is that … (38:46–38:54)
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Asserts that the 60 vote cloture standard is not the same as the passage threshold for a bill.
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