CHAOS IN DC: United States Senate Votes 51-44 on Controversial Legislation

Senate Minority Leader and New York Senator Charles Schumer was furious with the Republicans for circumventing the filibuster.

“It’s going nuclear, plain and simple. It’s overruling the parliamentarian. And second, what goes around comes around,” the senator said to reporters.

And New Mexico Democrat Sen. Martin Heinrich echoed the words of the Senate Minority Leader.

“If Senate Republicans force a vote on the California Clean Air Act Waivers, they set a precedent that will allow Congress to overturn nearly any agency decision nationwide,” he said before the vote. “I urge my colleagues to reject this gross overreach.”

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