Harry Reid Threatens To Go âNuclearâ On The GOP
January 22, 2013
After four years of the Republicans in the Senate waging an unprecedented campaign of obstruction by demanding that Democrats have at least 60 votes to pass
Republicans claim that 67 votes are necessary to change Senate rules, though both Republicans and Democrats have expressed the belief that 51 votes can effect rule changes. An aide to former Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist labeled this interpretation the âConstitutional option.â
Some question whether would Reid would ever really go ânuclear,â, knowing that the ill will it would create could seriously complicate Senate functioning while resulting in no dramatic reforms.
Just days after President Joe Biden took office, the Senate ground to a halt, with Democrats and Republicans unable to agree on even basic rules for how the evenly divided body should operate.
President Joe Biden's pledge to restore a tradition of bipartisan deal-making in Washington is facing an early test as a divided Congress weighs his ambitious pandemic relief plan.
We can file this one other “issues the activist media will ignore.” Some of President Joe Biden’s cabinet picks have some troubling issues as far as ethics are concerned.
Fox News published a report detailing some of the problematic ethical issues that have followed some of Biden’s nominees.
According to Fox, “Biden’s Commerce Secretary pick, Gina Raimondo, Homeland Security pick Alejandro Mayorkas and Labor Secretary pick Marty Walsh have all faced questions about favoritism or conflicts of interest in the last decade.”
Adam Laxalt, outside counsel for Americans for Public Trust criticized Raimondo in a statement given to
The Bidens attend an inaugural prayer service at the White House.
President Joe Biden raced Thursday to show he was addressing the array of crises awaiting him on his first day in office, issuing executive orders aimed at combating the coronavirus and preparing measures to take on the struggling economy and other problems.
Biden and his team found themselves immediately on what the president called a wartime footing, describing fighting the coronavirus as a national emergency. Against an already calamitous backdrop of a pandemic that has left more than 408,000 Americans dead, an additional 900,000 people filed new unemployment claims last week, underlining a devastated job market.