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Senate GOP vows payback if Reid triggers nuclear option on nominees
By Alexander Bolton - 06/18/13 03:03 PM ET
Senate Republicans are threatening to use the nuclear option to repeal ObamaCare and make other major legislative changes if Democrats use it to confirm judicial nominations.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a former member of the GOP leadership close to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), has assembled an agenda Republicans would pursue with the nuclear option if they retake control of the upper chamber.
It includes repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act, converting all federal education spending into school vouchers and scholarships to middle-income and low-income children, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling and repealing the estate tax.
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A vote to end the filibuster is a vote to complete Yucca Mountain, said Alexander. If we have 51 votes, we can order the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a license. We can order the Department of Energy to build it, and we can fund it.
Senate Democrats are mulling the nuclear option to break a logjam of President Obamas judicial and executive branch nominees. The controversial tactic would be used to eliminate filibusters of nominees by changing Senate rules with a simple majority vote.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(150,362 posts)Give 'em a taste of their own medicine!
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)hedda_foil
(16,403 posts)For the love of FDR, Harry, do it now!
madamesilverspurs
(15,840 posts)if we don't give them carte blanche to make our lives miserable, they'll retaliate by making our lives miserable.
At least they're finally admitting it.
a kennedy
(30,195 posts)Ugh......
railsback
(1,881 posts)Considering the jump in the gasoline and matches market.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Wouldn't Obama still need to sign that bill?
corkhead
(6,119 posts):yawn:
sigmasix
(794 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)The GOP is almost dead.
vi5
(13,305 posts)I wonder. Perhaps with a strong and vigorous show of streng.......hahahahahahahahahhahaha.....I couldn't even finish typing that without laughing.
msongs
(67,850 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)... the legal definitions of Extortion and Blackmail do not seem to fit...
But surely there must be some word I'm missing besides 'being assholes'.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Just keep talking Mitch and see how your incumbents do in the next election.