THE HILL: If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggers the nuclear option to break the logjam of President Obama’s nominees, it would be a very close vote.
Reid backed off the nuclear option at the start of the year and instead struck a deal with Republicans to streamline Senate floor business.
The Democratic leader now says that agreement has done “virtually nothing to alleviate the obstruction we’ve seen for five months now from the Republicans.” … (more)
