The whole “60 votes to invoke cloture” is a Senate rule.
It only requires 51 votes to change the rules in the Senate. That was what Frist was going to do; that’s what the “nuclear option” means – change the Senate rules.
I don’t want to hear the excuses about what it takes to get something through the Senate.
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