Harry Reid Enacts ‘Nuclear Option’ to Change Senate Rules

Harry Reid Enacts ‘Nuclear Option’ to Change Senate Rules! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has sent shockwaves throughout Capitol Hill and the American political system this evening by triggering a seldom-used option informally called the “nuclear option” to change the Senate Rules…
The surprise move stunned Republicans, who did not expect Reid to bring heavy artillery to what had appeared to have been a hum-drum legislative knife fight. The maneuver is highly arcane but momentous. If a simple majority of the Senate votes to uphold Reid’s appeal, the Senate’s rules will have been changed by the unilateral action of one party.

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