And so I don't want to let our Republican colleagues off the hook. And as a ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee, I want to make sure that the record is clear what happened. This was the very first time in the history of this Senate that the majority decided to go nuclear. to take up joint resolutions that were subject to the filibuster one minute and eliminated the legislative filibuster for them the next. (04:27–04:34)
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Asserts that it was the first time in Senate history that the majority used the nuclear option.
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