The No. 4 Democrat in the House is egging on Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster as each side blames the other for the current government shutdown.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said it would take a simple Senate rule change to end the shutdown, referring to the 60-vote threshold that gives the minority party leverage for most pieces of legislation.
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