In a reaction to unending delaying tactics by Senate Republicans, the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid, has proposed a rule change that would allow a majority vote on Cabinet nominees. “The leader is appropriately frustrated that time after time after time we have majority votes to do something, but we can’t get 60 votes because the Republicans are using the filibuster in an unprecedented way,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Friday in an interview with Dick Helton on KNX-AM news radio in Los Angeles.

Listen to the interview »

Reid’s rule change would only affect how the Senate handles Cabinet nominees and other senior executive branch positions. “He’s concentrating on making sure that when the President of the United States, who won the election, tries to bring people in to fill his team to implement his policy that he be allowed to do that,” Sanders said.

Sanders would go further and let majority rule prevail on legislation as well as nominees.  “When Lyndon Johnson, in the late 1950s, was majority leader, he had to overcome a filibuster one time during his tenure. Harry Reid has had to try to overcome filibusters 413 times.