Sentence examples for supermajority from inspiring English sources

As of Friday afternoon, the USA Freedom Act was expected to fall just shy of the 60 vote supermajority needed to proceed with debate under Senate rules.

It sees a virtue in the Fixed Term Parliaments Act because it "prevents an election for five years unless a supermajority in the house of commons votes for one, or the government loses a confidence motion and no other administration is formed within 14 days.

It was New Komeito, many of whose members are pacifists, which also pressured the government to shorten the Diet session so that the passage of this year's mission in the Indian Ocean was certain not to pass, since the time allotted was not enough for the government to use its supermajority.

By the time Massachusetts cost Mr Obama his supermajority, support for health reform had dropped away (see chart).

California's state finances are still unwieldy, thanks largely to Proposition 13, which famously caps property-tax rates and mandates a two-thirds legislative supermajority to raise any taxes.

The Republicans have been largely shut out of the budget-making process, but that is reasonable; if they don't like it they should win more seats (ironically, Democrats now enjoy a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers).

For a brief period Mr Specter gave Mr Obama his supermajority in the upper chamber.

But on January 19th Scott Brown, a Republican, captured the old Kennedy seat in Massachusetts, bumping the Republicans in the Senate up to 41 and destroying the Democratic supermajority at a stroke.

Here it is necessary to look at the third point of the legislative Bermuda Triangle into which Mr Obama has sailed: the polarisation of the political parties over the past 20 years.The supermajority rule would be no bad thing if it forced the majority party to reach out to the other side.

It means, in effect, that new legislation can be forced to muster a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.

His defection, followed by the ruling that Al Franken had squeaked to victory in Minnesota, eventually gave the Senate Democrats a filibuster-proof supermajority.