mplsdunk
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From my understanding, most Senate business is handled by unanimous consent. But most of those are procedural. Or to get a short budget passed
Unanimous consent is different from a unanimous vote. Unanimous consent means no one opposed a bill. A unanimous vote means everyone voted for it.
Basically, if something is gonna pass away, they just use unanimous consent to avoid having to call everyone back to the Senate and debate it out. It is a big time-saving measure for the Senate
Rand Paul is notorious for being the only dissenter for some ****. Cruz too. That is why even Republican Senators hate them as people.
When the Dems threaten to kill the filibuster, Mitch threatened to kill unanimous consent as retaliation, to make the Senate move painfully slow.
Oh ok, didn’t even know the wording made it so different.