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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution provides that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.”
That doesn’t mean that the parliamentarian (who as you note is not mentioned in the Constitution) should be allowed to make decisions that bind the Senate; under the Senate’s own rules she does not.
The parliamentarian has no authority to make binding rulings; her job is advisory in nature.
It is not the parliamentarian, but rather the Senate’s presiding officer—at any moment, that means either the Vice President, the President Pro Tempore (by modern tradition, this is typically and currently the senior-most senator of the majority party), or another senator named as his designee—who makes procedural rulings.
The parliamentarian advises the presiding officer, but the latter is free to reach a different conclusion.
And regardless of whether the presiding officer follows the advice of the parliamentarian, it is ultimately up to the Senate as a whole to decide whether the ruling in question should stand.
The Senate as a whole has the power to sustain or overturn any procedural ruling by a simple-majority vote.
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If we didn’t give it so much money and power, the government couldn’t manipulate us as much.