Rule Change Pushed By Harry Reid Could Allow Trump To Get All Of His Appointments Confirmed

[rangerrebew]

Rule Change Pushed By Harry Reid Could Allow Trump To Get All Of His Appointments Confirmed
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Alex Pfeiffer
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2:19 PM 11/19/2016
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) takes questions on the upcoming budget battle on Capitol Hill in Washington September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron   Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) takes questions on the upcoming budget battle on Capitol Hill in Washington September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

A senate rule change championed by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid could leave Democrats powerless to stop any of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments.

In 2013, Sen. Reid and other Democrats pushed forward with a rule change dubbed the “nuclear option” to eliminate filibusters for all presidential nominations except Supreme Court justices. This means that a simple majority of 51 votes instead of 60 votes is necessary to confirm executive office appointments.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/19/rule-change-pushed-by-harry-reid-could-allow-trump-to-get-all-of-his-appointments-confirmed/#ixzz4QYUVQAYj

[rangerrebew]

  What poetic justice!! 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Let's hope McConnell doesn't change the rule back to 60--you know, just to reach across the aisle. 

[Puss-N-Boots]

Thanks, Harry!  Now please go back to Nevada and leave us alone.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks, Harry!  Now please go back to Nevada and leave us alone.

At least now he can concentrate fully on exercising!   

Good to see you @Puss-N-Boots

[Puss-N-Boots]

Thanks, R_i_V!  Nice to be back.

[Hoodat]

Rule changes in the Senate require a two-thirds majority.  Reid did not have a two-thirds majority, yet changed the rule anyway.  He should be disgracefully expelled from the Senate.

He did the same thing with the Obamacare bill which contained a Senate rule change.  Again, two-thirds vote was required for passage.  Again, Reid violated Senate rules.  And more importantly, Mitch McConnell did nothing about it.  Nothing.