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We ly escalated but today's pattern of obstruction, it just isn't normal. it's not what our founders invisioned. a deliberate effort, no matter the merits to refight the results of an election is not normal, and for the sake of future generations, we can't let it become normal. >> republicans are threatening retaliation and claiming hypocrisy, a then senator obama opposed a nuclear option when they controlled the senate. >> if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock...

Touch the life or courts of cabinet departments. all involve people nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. confirmation takes a simple ma jobty, 51 votes, however, any senator can have a higher they shall hold of 60 votes. today siting the times republicans used the 60-vote hurdle to block nominees, they voted to take it off the table for all but supreme nominees. the change is called the nuclear option, the name implies a big deal, blows up the rules, the question why do the democrats do it? president obama made a visit to the press briefing room and singled out the gop. >> i...

By them. is the senate working now? can anyone say the senate is working now? i don't think so. >> i realize this sort of wishful thinking may appeal to the newcomers in the democratic congress who served zero days in the minority, but the rest of you guys in the conference should know better. you want to play games, set yet another precedent that you'll no doubt come to regret, say my friends on the other side of the aisle and you may regret it and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think. >> president obama defended senate democrats hope to measure would bypass some of the gridlock in w...

It just isn't normal. it's not what our founders envisioned. the vote today i think is an indication a majority of senators believe as i believe enough is a enough. the american people deserve better than politicians who run for election telling them how terrible government is and then devoting their time in elected office to make government not work as often as possible. >> having said that, president obama, vice president biden, and senator reid all opposed these types of tactics when their party was in the minority back in 2005. >> what they don't expect is for one party, be it republican o...

Senate did today matters if you care about who runs government agencies that touch your life or the courts or cabinet departments. all people nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. confirmation takes a simple majority, 51 votes. however, any senator can demand a higher threshold, supermajority of 60 votes. today citing all the times the republicans have used that 60-vote hurdle to block presidential nominees, the senate voted to take it off the table for all but supreme court nominees. it's called the nuclear option, really big deal, blows up the rules. why did the democrats d...