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Reid to Senate Republicans: Filibuster deal in 36 hours or face nuclear option
The Hill ^

Posted on 01/22/2013 2:41:23 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Reid to Senate Republicans: Filibuster deal in 36 hours or face nuclear option By Alexander Bolton - 01/22/13 03:29 PM ET

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is giving Republican colleagues 36 hours to agree to a deal on filibuster reform or he will move forward with the nuclear option.

“I hope in the next 24, 36 hours we can get something we agree on. If not, we’re going to move forward on what I think needs to be done,” Reid told reporters.

Reid’s trump card in negotiations with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is the threat he will change Senate rules with a simple majority vote, a tactic known as the nuclear option. This maneuver would allow Reid to change the Senate rules with a simple majority vote, something that has never been done, according to parliamentary experts.

Critics call it the nuclear option but proponents, such as Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) say it is more accurate to describe it as the “Constitutional option” because the Constitution empowers each chamber to set its own rules.

Reid predicted the Democratic caucus would support him in reforming the Senate’s filibuster rule unilaterally.

If he did so, he would likely implement a relatively modest change, such as eliminating the filibuster on motions to proceed to new business.

Reid said talks with McConnell are not close to a resolution.

“We’re making progress. Not done yet, we got a long way to go,” he told reporters while walking into the Senate chamber.

A senator briefed on the talks said it appears McConnell will have trouble rounding up enough Republican votes to support any deal he forges with Reid. Changing the rules under regular order requires 67 votes. Reforming Senate procedures through a standing order would need 60 votes.

A Democratic aide said McConnell could have difficulty mustering 12 Republicans to vote to change the standing rules under regular order.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; congress; democrats; harryreid; nuclearoption; reid; senate; senaterules; tyranny
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To: Sub-Driver; mickie
"Nuclear Option"....

The Left is certainly creative in coining buzz words and phrases guaranteed to scare the bejeebus out of the moronic low-information members of the public.

Our side should be so adept.

Leni

21 posted on 01/22/2013 2:54:59 PM PST by MinuteGal (Send a penny NOW to CNN, 1 Time-Warner Center, NY,NY 10019 for "PENNIES FOR LEAVING!" (Piers Morgan))
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To: Sub-Driver
I lie, I cheat, I steal. I sacrifice unborn babies. I am the scum of the earth. I'm Harry Reid and I'm a temple recommend holding mormon.


22 posted on 01/22/2013 2:55:26 PM PST by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Sub-Driver

Who gives a ****? the House GOP leadership is so strong that only bills that pass with the “pre nukyalur” option voting thresholds would be considered? Oh, wait....boehner is still there.....


23 posted on 01/22/2013 2:55:31 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hahaha, after years of letting the Senate off the hook with continuing resolutions, this is how the GOP is paid back?

Dear GOP, grow a spine. Sincerely, screw you.
24 posted on 01/22/2013 2:55:46 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Sub-Driver

A) Make him do it, and B) Send Rubio, Lee, Johnson, Scott, and Cruz out on the media circuit right afterwards. Enough with the Sunday morning geezer club (McConnell, McCain, etc). Get strong, likable young leadership out front.


25 posted on 01/22/2013 2:57:03 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ichabod McConnell should tell Reid to go eff himself. Let them do it; they’ll cheat anyway when it serves them. Grow some balls.


26 posted on 01/22/2013 2:57:08 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: MinuteGal

Personally I think it’s better to be polite, honest, and be a really good shot.


27 posted on 01/22/2013 2:58:36 PM PST by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Sub-Driver
If Reid would go with the nuclear option, we have the house to still say no.

Then in 2014 we take the senate majority with Reid's new rule and Obama would be F'd!

Am I right on this?

28 posted on 01/22/2013 2:59:56 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Sub-Driver

Fascists


29 posted on 01/22/2013 3:01:37 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Sometimes it takes calamity to lead to serenity - FReeper RacerX1128)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wow that’s gonna backfire on Bobo when the Democrats lose the Senate in 2014 ... if a Supreme needs replacement 2014-2016, the furthest Left the GOP will give Bobo is Larry Tribe, a fairly conventional Liberal douchebag Harvard insider, instead of some 9th Panel Maoist ...


30 posted on 01/22/2013 3:02:25 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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31 posted on 01/22/2013 3:02:48 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: papertyger

Dems are always portrayed as the ‘bipartisan’ ‘moderates’ versus the Republican ‘extremists’.
I can’t see the media successfully using that meme after this.

Sure, the dumbest sluts will continue to believe, but the merely-slightly-below-average-IQ voters won’t.


32 posted on 01/22/2013 3:02:48 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: onyx

The GOP doesn’t need any help. They can do it themselves.


33 posted on 01/22/2013 3:03:04 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
more accurate to describe it as the “Constitutional option” because the Constitution empowers each chamber to set its own rules.

Good. Let's have the House shut down the free money spigot.
Let's play hardball. The republicans should understand by now that you can't have gentleman's agreements with marxists.

34 posted on 01/22/2013 3:03:40 PM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: TexasCajun

You are correct. The Reps must take the Senate. Obama has about 18 months to push his agenda through. The House will be the only place where he can be blocked.


35 posted on 01/22/2013 3:03:55 PM PST by CityCenter (Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Spineless ninnies.
For once, bring on street fighters.
Let Ted Cruz and Mike Lee speak.


36 posted on 01/22/2013 3:05:32 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Sub-Driver

The House can checkmate Reid’s commie senate by cutting off all funding for senate operations.


37 posted on 01/22/2013 3:06:19 PM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: Sub-Driver

The neuclear cliff option..sounds really scary don’t it.
Im almost convinced they’re all in on it but they have to make it look like a big fight.


38 posted on 01/22/2013 3:06:19 PM PST by Leep (Are you smarter than a 7th grade math student and or Barack 0bama?)
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To: Sub-Driver
The words "unanimous consent" should be removed from the senate vocabulary for at least two years if Reid does this. He shouldn't be able to leave the podium to go to the restroom without debate and a recorded vote of the full senate to allow him to temporarily pass the gavel to someone else.
39 posted on 01/22/2013 3:07:43 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Kabuki theater.


40 posted on 01/22/2013 3:08:34 PM PST by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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