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nu·cle·ar op·tion
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Nuclear option
In U.S. politics, the nuclear option, also called the constitutional option, is when the Presiding Officer of the United States Senate disregards a rule or precedent. This allows the Senate to end a filibuster by majority vote, even though the rules of the Senate specify that ending a filibuster requires the consent of 60 senators for legislation, 67 for amending a Senate rule. An opinion written by Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957 concluded that the U.S. Constitution grants the presiding officer the authority to override Senate rules in this way. If a majority vote to uphold the presiding officer, his interpretation of the rules becomes a precedent. In practice, the issue rarely arises as presiding officers generally follow established precedent, as interpreted by the Senate's parliamentarian. Senator Trent Lott first called the option "nuclear" in March 2003; the metaphor of a nuclear strike refers to the majority party unilaterally imposing a change to the filibuster rule, which might provoke retaliation by the minority party. Although it is not provided for in the formal rules of the Senate, the threat of the nuclear option has played a key role in filibuster reform historically. A series of votes in 1975 have been cited as a precedent, although some of these were reconsidered shortly thereafter. Proponents have referred to it as the constitutional option, especially when applied to filibusters on judicial nominees, on the rationale that the United States Constitution implies that the Senate can act by a majority vote unless the Constitution itself requires a supermajority.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nuclear option in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
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The numerical value of nuclear option in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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If they go the nuclear option and get rid of one of the parties, entirely dissolve them, then I think you may see people getting really, really, really upset.
He ultimately decided on the nuclear option on the menu in front of him ... because it would be the most effective for him to be elected.
If you control the White House and the Senate and the House, and you can't get anything done, because you're eight votes short of 60-percent, a reasonable thing to is… drop the nuclear option on you and then we'll be able to pass our legislation.
I think its only a matter of time before the nuclear option is invoked and upheld because Musk just will not constrain himself.
It was the nuclear option.
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