The U.S. Senate is going nuclear.
Barring a last-minute deal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made clear he will move forward Tuesday with a controversial maneuver — known as the "nuclear option" — to change the chamber's rules to make it easier to confirm President Obama's executive branch nominees.
"I love the Senate. But right now the Senate is broken and needs to be fixed," Reid said at a Monday address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, in which he defended his decision to change Senate rules. Senators of both parties have warned the rules change could tear apart the traditions and comity for which the chamber is historically known.
Senators huddled privately late Monday evening in the Old Senate Chamber on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol to see if a bipartisan deal could be reached to head off Reid's plan. But after three hours, the meeting broke up without any resolution.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/15/senate-nuclear-option-reid-mcconnell-filibuster/2518761/
Barring a last-minute deal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made clear he will move forward Tuesday with a controversial maneuver — known as the "nuclear option" — to change the chamber's rules to make it easier to confirm President Obama's executive branch nominees.
"I love the Senate. But right now the Senate is broken and needs to be fixed," Reid said at a Monday address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, in which he defended his decision to change Senate rules. Senators of both parties have warned the rules change could tear apart the traditions and comity for which the chamber is historically known.
Senators huddled privately late Monday evening in the Old Senate Chamber on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol to see if a bipartisan deal could be reached to head off Reid's plan. But after three hours, the meeting broke up without any resolution.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/15/senate-nuclear-option-reid-mcconnell-filibuster/2518761/
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