Even with Democrats in control of the Senate agenda, they still need significant bipartisan support to move legislation unless they use a special budgetary process known as reconciliation to move bills with simple-majority votes. But that special pathway is reserved for legislation that directly impacts revenue, spending or the federal deficit.
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Almost all controversial legislation needs to overcome a 60-vote procedural threshold to cut off debate and proceed to an up-or-down vote in the chamber.
Ossoff is leading Perdue by just more than 16,000 votes with an estimated 98 percent of the vote tallied. He declared victory Wednesday, though The Associated Press has not yet called the race.
The president-elect faces the possibility of having unified Democratic control in Congress.
Biden has long called the recently-passed $900 billion relief measure a “down payment” on a future, broader package, but with Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock’s (D) victory in one Georgia Senate runoff and Democrat Jon Ossoff’s lead in a second, the president-elect indicated he will press hard for a new deal.
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“Georgia s voters delivered a resounding message yesterday: they want action on the crises we face and they want it right now. On COVID-19, on economic relief, on climate, on racial justice, on voting rights and so much more. They want us to move, but move together,” Biden said in a statement on the Georgia races.
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