Reid to use Nuclear Option to Kill GOP Filibuster Power, Blow up the Senate
The Democrats majority-hold on the United States Senate is only a recent fact. Just a few years ago they were in the minority, outnumbered by Republicans. In 2006, the GOP majority once contemplated changing Senate rules by a vote of 51 – rather than the general 2/3 majority – and the Democrats kicked and screamed in opposition. They clamored that the GOP’s possible invocation of the rare 51-vote option was the wrong thing to do; in fact, they called the method the “nuclear option,” suggesting that it, like a hypothetical bomb, would blow up the workings of the Senate.
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