CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings July 12, 2013
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive ...