No it takes a supermajority to outright change Senate rules mid-session.
That's the whole point of the "nuclear option"
Frist could have adopted new rules by majority vote when the 109th Congress first met, but not now.
In order to implement the nuclear option, cloture has to fail, and a point of order must be raised.
Okay. Thanks for that clarifying info.
I stand corrected.
Regards,
LH