Re: What Happened to The 56 Men Who Signed the DeclarationofIndependence ?

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 7/8/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> >>Dick Cheney is the President of the Senate. So, yeah, he'd have a
> little something to do with it.
>
> Very little. Since an amendment requires 2/3 majority the VP never gets
> to vote on it. The fact that he could be presiding over the Senate is of
> little consequence and it's unlikely he would do so anyway.

Larry, voting is one thing, influence is another. Besides, he IS the
president of the Senate and that, in and of itself, carries a certain
amount of weight - even more back then, when we weren't all tied up on
"partisan" crap. Lincoln was the first Republican after all.
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