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Technically he never had a supermajority of Democrats in the Senate. It was only with caucusing with independents that they could break the 60 vote threshold to end filibusters.

They had a caucused supermajority in the Senate from:

July 8th, 2009 - August 25, 2009 and September 25, 2009 - February 4, 2010

Or about 4 months to make any change he wanted (that the caucus which included Joe Lieberman, an extreme defense hawk, and Arlen Spector who just switched parties, approved).



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