You don’t want to miss the historic proceedings underway in the Senate. Watch.
Filibuster reform is a way to distract from the problems of the Obamacare rollout. That’s what Mitch McConnell said on the floor responding to Harry Reid’s move. It’s what Speaker John Boeher said, too, in his weekly press conference as things were unfolding in the Senate.
Mitch McConnell threw one last — or at least it appears to be the last — procedural monkey wrench in Harry Reid’s works, moving to adjourn the Senate. That’s forced a roll call vote on whether to adjourn and delayed the vote on Reid’s filibuster rules change.
Late Update: The motion to adjourn fails.
Later Update: The Senate is now voting to reconsider the Millett nomination. That will presumably also fail to muster the necessary 60 votes, at which point Reid will move to change the rules.
In case you weren’t able to watch, here’s the floor speech Harry Reid gave a little after 10 a.m. ET before setting in motion the rules change to the filibuster:
