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BREAKING: Reid Using “Nuclear Option” To Do Away With The Filibuster? UPDATE: Not The Filibuster Update 2: Reid Changes Senate Rules By Majority Vote Drew M. Ace of Spades HQ 10/6/2011 …The rule they are trying to change has to do with the ability to close off the option of offering amendments. Reid’s maneuver works. […] October 6th, 2011 | Tags: "nuclear option", "tactical nuclear option", “American Jobs Act of 2011″, amendments, cloture, Federalism, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Illegal Immigration, legislation | Comments are closed
Allahpundit HotAir.com 7/1/2011 Last week it was a theory being kicked around on left-wing websites, today it’s evidently the nuclear option in the White House’s arsenal of debt-ceiling weapons. Go figure. Congress has raised the debt ceiling no fewer than 74 times in the past 50 years, but now, conveniently, it turns out the president’s […] July 5th, 2011 | Tags: "nuclear option", debt ceiling, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. John Cornyn, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: 14th Amendment, Barack Obama, Congress, Federal spending | Comments are closed
Jane Hamsher FireDogLake.com 3/19/2010 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a deal with Rep. Bart Stupak in order to secure his vote and that of other anti-choice Democrats for the health care bill, which is scheduled to be voted on this Sunday. According to a member of Congress who was briefed on the matter, Pelosi […] March 20th, 2010 | Tags: "nuclear option", abortion, Nancy Pelosi, reconciliation, Rep. Bart Stupak | Category: Congress, Health Care, Video | Comments are closed
by Rob at SayAnythingBlog October 28, 2009 In 2007 Barack Obama promised not to use a “50+1” tactic to bypass a filibuster of health care in the Senate and would instead seek bipartisanship. Now, however, things have changed. There’s more bi-partisan opposition for Democrat health care “reform” efforts than there is support, and […] October 28th, 2009 | Tags: "nuclear option", reconciliation, SayAnything | Category: Bloggers, Health Care, TAKE ACTION!, Taxes, US Constitution, Video | Comments are closed
by Connie Hair Human Events 10/16/09 The House of Representatives yesterday set into motion the nuclear option for H.R. 3200 that would make it possible for the Senate to pass government-run health care with only 51 votes. House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held the mandatory hearing yesterday to pass the formal […] October 16th, 2009 | Tags: "nuclear option", House Ways and Means Committee, Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Charles Rangel | Category: Health Care | Comments are closed
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