User talk:Jansencr

Careful with wording
Hi thank you for your attempts to clean up Filibuster in the United States Senate but can you take care with your wording. I note in this edit you introduce this change "a rule change itself could be filibustered if a majority vote from two-thirds from senators who are present and voting is received" but the wording makes no sense or is simply wrong. The original wording is correct and easy to understand, a 2/3 majority is needed to end the filibuster for rule changes. You also introduced this "The two-thirds required vote was a change made from the original three-fifths vote that was originally required" which in this case appears to be simply wrong. According to nuclear option the 2/3 present and voting majority was actually the original requirement. It was later changed for most things to 3/5 sworn, except for Senate rule changes. The original wording which you modified simply noted that the normal (note not original) requirement is for 3/5 sworn vs 2/3 present and voting for rule changes which I don't think is necessary (since we already mention the normal requirement before) but at least wasn't misleading [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate&diff=753669591&oldid=750895661] Nil Einne (talk) 04:54, 7 January 2017 (UTC)