Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-N.V.) relinquished his plans to drastically change the rules of the Senate in order to pass his liberal agenda with a smaller majority. Reid’s effort to kill the filibuster, which is the minority’s right to effect legislation, went down in flames in the final rules changes on Thursday. “In the short term, this is a victory for conservatives. As part of the current minority party in the Senate, their rights will be preserved. In addition, extreme mechanisms that had been proposed to advance new rules and limit filibusters came to nothing in the end,” said...
