Number: RL32684
Title: Changing Senate Rules: The "Constitutional" or "Nuclear" Option
Authors: Betsy Palmer, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: Exactly because the point of a nuclear or constitutional option is to achieve changes in Senate procedure by using means that lie outside the Senates normal rules of procedure, it would be impossible to list all the different permutations such maneuvers could encompass. This report presents four different approaches or scenarios that have been discussed as possible methods to achieve this goal.
Pages: 11
Date: November 1, 2005