Harry has found a spine!!!!
Reid triggers nuclear option to change Senate rules and prohibit post-cloture filibusters
By Alexander Bolton
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.
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David Waldman gives an explanation