I just called Senator McConnell’s, senate majority leader’s office, talked to assistant, Melanie, urged to put to a vote “nuclear option” change of rules to pass all Trump’s initiatives with simple 51 vote majority
Posted on | April 27, 2017 | 4 Comments
Please, call senate switchboard (202) 224-3121
- state that you need to talk to a senator, press 1
- when asked for the state, tell Kentucky
- press 1 for McConnell
- talk to the staff member urge to put to a vote “nuclear option” change of rules to pass all Trump’s initiatives with simple 51 vote majority
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April 28th, 2017 @ 11:38 am
I don’t understand how it is a nuclear option to allow a vote. To me the nuclear option is not to allow a vote. To just keep arguments open in order to prevent a vote is obstruction.
I would think that if the congress can change rules to obstruct the vote we have lost our voice and no longer are a free nation. I must have missed something going through civics class, but those were the good old days.
April 28th, 2017 @ 11:46 am
If congress uses the “Nuclear Option” and allows a vote but an Obama appointed judge stays it and the scotus says OK, like Roberts did with Obamacare, what do we do then? Punt.
Stop paying their salaries might be a good idea.
April 28th, 2017 @ 12:04 pm
this is a Senate internal rule, no judge can stay it, just as no judge stayed the nuclear option to use simple majority vote for Gorsuch
April 28th, 2017 @ 12:06 pm
you do not understand what nuclear option is. This is a simple change of senate rules saying that a simple majority of 51 will stop the filibuster and the senate will vote