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From: LindyBill10/6/2011 7:58:06 PM
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Harry Reid Nukes the Senate


October 6, 2011 7:47 P.M.
By Andrew Stiles

So, this just happened. As the Senate was preparing to vote on China currency legislation, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell got into a disagreement over the amendments that Republicans were seeking to add to the bill. When they could not resolve the issue, Reid invoked the so-called “nuclear option” to change the rules of the Senate:

  • In a shock development Thursday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a rarely-used procedural 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.
  • Reid appealed a ruling from the chair that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) does not need consent to force a vote on a motion to suspend the rules to consider an amendment after cloture has already been approved.
A subsequent vote to uphold the ruling failed 48 -51, effectively changes the rules of the Senate to make it all but impossible for the minority party to offers amendments to a piece of legislation after cloture has been invoked. McConnell planned to use the rule to force a vote on President Obama’s jobs bill, but Reid objected.

“This is an outrage,” said Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) amid a kerfuffle on the Senate floor.

“Am I 100 percent confident that I’m right? No. But I feel pretty comfortable with what we’ve done,” Reid said.

More soon.

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