and Senate Democrats may yet come to rue Harry Reid’s use of the nuclear option for executive appointees (because of Senator Reid’s decision, removing the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees ...

Feel free to keep President Barack Obama, Senator Harry Reid and those who implored Senate Democrats to blow up the filibuster a few years ago in your thoughts as President-elect Donald Trump ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

Like the great filibusters of the past — "Huey Long ... and informal agreements worked out by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The new ...

Over the past decade, a similar dynamic played out over the use of the filibuster for Senate confirmations. In 2013, ...

got a lot of mileage out of his 13-hour, old-fashioned filibuster of John Brennan's ... is hand-delivering a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday, threatening to do whatever ...

In 2013, Senator Harry Reid triggered the so-called "nuclear option," which eliminated the filibuster for lower court nominees. At the time, Senator Mitch McConnell stated, "I say to my friends on ...

The filibuster, a 60-vote threshold to end debate ... Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) invoked the “nuclear option” to reduce the threshold needed for non-Supreme Court ...

By Syd Gross, Community Voices There are times when one has to question the democratic process, especially here in the USA. We tend to put so much emphasis on the rights of the minority that we ...