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Harry Reid, who died in Nevada, used the "nuclear option" on the filibuster rule in 2013. Democrats should finish killing it to pass voting rights.
Harry Reid, who died Tuesday, was right to “go nuclear” in ending the Senate filibuster for most presidential nominees, including for lower court judgeships. That action in 2013 could be ...
Harry Reid’s filibuster deal won’t be the reform some hoped for, but it might block a small band of conservatives.
Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Monday called for an end to the legislative filibuster, asserting that removing the procedure would help end the “era of obstruction and inaction ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shocked and infuriated many of his fellow Democrats on Thursday when he backed away from his pledge to put an end to the curse of the filibuster.
An arcane Senate rule, the filibuster imposes a 60-vote threshold on the majority of legislation, and it allows just one senator of the minority party to effectively block … ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is widely reported to be moving toward the “nuclear option,” a rules change by majority vote that would make it harder for Republicans to filibuster President ...
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called for the filibuster to be abolished Wednesday in light of the new restrictive Texas abortion bill, arguing that the country “need[s] to ...
The solution is to mend it, not to end it. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is offering mostly reasonable reforms. First, he suggests eliminating the option to filibuster motions to consider.
SENATE Warner regrets Harry Reid's filibuster change: 'I wish we wouldn't even have started this' Virginia senator is open to exempting voting rights legislation from the filibuster ...
In the latest Senate squabble over the fate of the filibuster, Majority Leader Harry Reid said earlier this week that the filibuster itself isn’t in the Constitution and the nation can operate ...