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Mitch McConnell is taking one more bite at the apple, having the Senate vote again on whether it really, really wants to change the Senate filibuster rules. But it should mirror the first vote a few minutes ago. The Senate filibuster rules undergo their first major change since 1975. Sahil Kapur explains how it all came down.
I don’t know what I expected. Maybe the phrase “nuclear option” conjured some cataclysmic moment on the Senate floor when Harry Reid presses a cartoonish red button and Mitch McConnell, tie askew and hair mussed, shouts an anguished “Noooooo” while lunging to stop him.
But there’s no such dramatics on the Senate floor. Not even anyone raising a cane.
The key vote in the sequence of procedural steps to undo the current filibuster rules is underway.
