It’s a ruse, Senate Republicans said before and then after their Democratic colleagues voted Thursday to alter the filibuster rules for judicial and executive nominees. By their telling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) needed to find something to change the subject after Obamacare’s troubled rollout, which had dominated headlines in recent weeks. He found it in changing the Senate rules.
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