I wonder whether they’ll resurrect this half of S.Res.50 (116th C.), which got filibustered. (The other half, reducing postcloture time to 2 hours for some nominations, was effected by the nuclear option the next day.) Being able to yield back half of postcloture time would really speed things up.
Assuming they did this by overturning a ruling of the chair or, as is currently trendy, sustaining a point of order submitted to the Senate, I don’t think I would even call that ‘nuclear’; it wouldn’t conflict with the text of the cloture rule.
Fun fact: Lee voted against (cloture on the motion to proceed to) that resolution, as well as against nuking the next day; Collins voted against nuking. Resolution: www.senate.gov/legislative/... Nuclear option #1: www.senate.gov/legislative/... Nuclear option #2: www.senate.gov/legislative/...