my formal attire. i m here at my farm in kentucky. forgive me. yeah, what he should do on the build back better, he should admit defeat and get rid of it. it s done. people don t want it. the senate won t pass it. it would be the gracious them for him to do. they went through all sort of fin nagling to get there. shouldn t be on reconciliation. it shouldn t be passed 51-50. that s not the right way to do it either. he should be gracious and say that s over. let s get on to the next business. what he also should do, i think, is do payroll tax waiver, partial probably, to really make it more attractive for more low income workers to come back to the labor force. that should happen as well. and lastly, the thing i think biden should do is what i think he s trying to do is really pass the decision making on to the states rather than mandating
senate rules requires a procedural vote of 67 yays. a rules change was out of the question. there was another way to lower the bar. establishing a new precedent. there s only 44 standing rules of the senate and tens of thousands of precedents. standing rules are the bare skeleton of senate procedure. the rules of the road are givened by interpretations of those rules by precedent. via fancy fin nagling, harry reid didn t change the rules. he instituted a new precedent for breaking filibusters on all nominations except the supreme court. under the precedent set by the senate today, november 21, 2013, the threshold for cloture of nominations is now a majority. that was the nuclear option. reed s decision incensed republicans then in the