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GOP pushes to change Senate rules for Trump
« on: March 22, 2018, 01:37:00 pm »
GOP pushes to change Senate rules for Trump
By Alexander Bolton - 03/22/18 06:00 AM EDT

A group of Republican senators wants to press the button on a new “nuclear option” that would limit debate time on President Trump’s nominees.

The controversial move would hasten the pace of the president’s nominees getting confirmed and curtail Democratic power in the upper chamber.

Senate leaders have twice used the nuclear option to facilitate action on nominees in recent years.

In 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stripped the minority of the power to filibuster executive branch and judicial nominees below the level of Supreme Court.

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Re: GOP pushes to change Senate rules for Trump
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2018, 01:40:18 pm »
Do it!
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Re: GOP pushes to change Senate rules for Trump
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2018, 04:42:58 pm »
They should also end the 60 vote requirement to bring a bill to the floor for a vote.
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