two wives? i will mention his name. we had liddy dole and bob dole. don: and a number of cases wives succeeded their husbands. the dole situation was different because he was a senator from kansas and she ran on her own as a senator from north carolina. most of the other cases, the senator died. thaddeus haraway, his wife took his seat. the first woman elected to the senate. brian: this is the nuclear option. what is that? don: a parliamentary device. it has to do with trying to reduce the number of votes needed to invoke cloture to cut off debate so you can have a final vote. and the senate, the most it takes is 60 votes. in the last congress, the majority party was able to engineer a situation in which they were able to get cloture reduced to a simple majority are