This is to be done by means of a supra-cabinet body called the National Security Council in which he, as president, will preside over meetings attended by the prime minister and four of his cabinet colleagues, plus the president's nominees.

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There are problems to say that this country should be denied the opportunity and the other one should be rewarded by having to preside this organization or that one.

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But the nuke option puts this notable change into effect by exploiting the vice president's constitutional power to preside over the Senate, rule on procedural questions and break ties.

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That dream is why someone who began by sweeping the floors of his father's Cincinnati bar can preside as speaker of the House in the greatest nation on Earth.

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