User Clip: McConnell on History of Changing Senate Procedure
Sen. Mitch McConnell gives a history of changing Senate procedure by simple majority vote.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell gives a history of changing Senate procedure by simple majority vote.
began out of the "nunclear option"
McConnell on Nominations & Filibusters
Reaction from Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
May 23, 2005 Senate Session -- The Senate continued consideration of the nomination of Priscilla Owen as a judge for the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Late in the session senators cam…
debate and even fillibuster
the constitutional ("nuclear") option
to make changes to its own rules and procedures.
judicial nominations be treated in the senate