Vic's Moor News 2018 Mar 8

…On this day in 1917 the Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. Originally it required a 2/3 majority vote to invoke cloture. In 1975 the Democrats voted to make it 60 because they had 61 communists in the Senate. It also goes by the 'nuclear option' now when Democrats want to change cloture to 51 votes. That is used by the Democrats but seldom by the Republicans.…