News from The Hill: McConnell grabs the wheel in the Senate

News from The Hill McConnell grabs the wheel in the Senate By Alexander Bolton Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is giving GOP lawmakers more authority right out of the gate, underlining his message that he won’t run the Senate the way Democratic Leader Harry Reid did. McConnell is letting the new chairman of the Senate Rules Committee take the lead on whether to undo the “nuclear option” invoked by Democrats and Reid (D-Nev.) that limited the minority’s right to filibuster. Read more on this article here.