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<the Republican-devised "nuclear option" being used by the Democrats> How's that again?
by DrScump 11y ago
<the Republican-devised "nuclear option" being used by the Democrats>
How's that again?
- geofft 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option The "nuclear option" was named by Trent Lott (R-Miss.) in 2003 and first seriously threatened by majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) in 2005. It got actually invoked by the Democrats in 2013, in the reverse situation: the Democrats had a majority but not a supermajority of the Senate, and a Democratic president.