Posted on 07/16/2013 5:25:58 PM PDT by Red Steel
In a bid to avert the "nuclear option," Senate leadership reached a deal this afternoon to move forward with consideration of five nominees to President Obama's Cabinet, including Gina McCarthy, the president's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
As part of the deal, Senate Democrats are set to negotiate the withdrawal of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin's nominations to the National Labor Relations Board. Block and Griffin, whose recess appointments to the board were ruled unconstitutional earlier this year, are expected to be replaced with less-controversial nominees, and GOP senators say they won't block the nominations.
McCarthy is also expected to be confirmed without issue. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said that McCarthy has "enough votes to clear a 60-vote hurdle."
While it's unlikely that any holdups will arise, McCarthy may not be confirmed until later this week since the Senate isn't slated to vote on her nomination until each of the four other nominees has been considered separately.
Obama about to get another super leftist radical in government. The EPA.
GOP are history as an alleged conservative party, for years they have been irrelevant.
Gee, I seem to remember them successfully canning all our nominees, not just some.
FUJM
Gee, I seem to remember them successfully canning all our nominees, not just some.
FUJM
Can you imagine if the GOP took back the Senate—and the RATS couldn’t filibuster?
If the GOP took back the Senate the Rats wouldn’t have to filibuster-—The RINO’s would do what the Democrats wanted, just like now.
Yes, unfortunately they would. But they still should have forced Harry Reid’s hand.
Can you imagine if the GOP took back the Senate—and the RATS couldn’t filibuster?
The Republicans would graciously reach across the aisle and filibuster for the Democratic [sic] party in the hope—vain, of couse—of not being called bad names by recent junior college graduates of the New York Times.
If the options were (a) letting the Dims have the nominations they wanted by forcing him to adopt the “nuclear option” or (b) letting the Dims have the nominations they wanted by NOT fillibustering them and just letting them have them anyway
then WHAT IN THE HELL DID McCONNEL GAIN FOR THE GOP BY NOT FORCING REID TO TAKE THE NUCLEAR OPTION?
ZERO, ZIP, ZILCH, NADA!!!!!!
GOPe surrender... who is surprised?
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