simple majority

Wednesday's vote should be a formality because Tusk's coalition has a 12-seat majority in the lower house, the Sejm, and only a simple majority in the presence of half the 460 parliamentarians is required to win.

State Rep. Brian Seitz, a Republican from Branson, has supported multiple failed efforts to change the state’s initiative process — he’d prefer a 60% threshold rather than a simple majority, as it is now — and backed the sick leave repeal and the amendment to restore Missouri’s abortion ban.

In August 2023, Ohio voters decisively rejected Issue 1, a Republican-backed proposal to raise the threshold for passing constitutional amendments from a simple majority to 60%.

And a Democratic aide to the Senate Judiciary Committee has told me that Democrats are planning to challenge it as a violation of the Byrd rule, meaning it can’t be passed by a simple majority—it must be subject to the filibuster.

It is certainly not inconceivable that they would overrule the parliamentarian again, now that they’ve crossed this Rubicon, to enact any part of the reconciliation bill with a simple majority.