[Tzimisce]

I'll bet you are wrong. If they change the rules for their own chamber, the House GOP will simply accept it. This lame-duck session established a pattern: defiant talk followed by acquiescence in whatever the Dems wanted. It's a pattern we're likely to see next session.

I thought the rules for running the Senate didn't have to be approved by the House or the President.

The Constitution says each house can make its own rules - I assumed that meant without having to get the approval of the other.

[madprof98]

I was responding to someone who claimed the new GOP majority in the House would not go along with what the Senate wants if it unfairly changes the rules this way. I think that is far-fetched. The House will bluster, perhaps, but ultimately the Dems will get their way, and GOP voters will perhaps get some pork thrown their way.