Welp, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "went nuclear." (I hate that phrase.) I have to imagine the Republicans aren't too unhappy about a new 51-vote rule, as opposed to the previous 60-vote rule, especially right before an election year when they have an opportunity to take back the majority by the slimmest of margins.
One might even imagine that this result was a key objective of their obstructionist strategy all along.
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