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The nuclear option was notably invoked on November 21, 2013, when a Democratic majority led by Harry Reid used the procedure to reduce the cloture threshold for nominations, other than nominations to the Supreme Court, to a simple majority.
Nov 21, 2013 · Harry Reid invokes the historic rules change to eliminate the filibuster on most presidential nominees except Supreme Court picks. Obama praises the move, while McConnell and Boehner criticize it as a political ploy.
Harry Reid employed the so-called 'nuclear option,' broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, lowered the threshold for confirmation from 60 votes to 51 votes. And it is a direct result of Harry Reid that we now have the most conservative cabinet in decades.
Nov 21, 2013 · Known as the “nuclear option,” the procedural maneuver allows the majority party to change the Senate rules with a 51-person vote, in this case used to make it more difficult for the minority...
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- Rebecca Kaplan
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After a full year of threats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday finally moved to scrap the Senate's arcane filibuster rules for some presidential nominations, a historic...
Nov 21, 2013 · Like an actual nuclear weapon, the Senate's "nuclear option" was long thought to be most effective not as a weapon but as a deterrent. Harry Reid, leader of the Democratic majority, has...
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The “nuclear option” is a last-resort, break-in-case-of-emergency way for the majority party in the Senate to overcome obstruction by the minority. All it actually involves is changing the...
