Posted on 07/19/2017 7:07:38 PM PDT by Cheerio
Dozens of President Trump's nominees are waiting for their confirmations to move forward as Democrats embark on "historic obstructionism," according to several Republican lawmakers. Yet, the GOP isn't the only one to have noticed the maddening delays. The New York Times is now reporting on the brand new "delaying tactic" the Democrats are employing to deny Trump his nominees.
Here's how the tedious process is unfolding.
Here is what is happening: Democrats are requiring that Republicans check all the procedural boxes on most nominees, even those they intend to eventually support. That requires the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, to request a formal “cloture” vote to move forward.
An “intervening day” is then required to allow the cloture request to “ripen.” Next is a vote to impose cloture followed by 30 hours of “post-cloture” debate before a final vote. Democrats have refused to shorten the debate time — to “yield back,” in the parlance of the Senate — though in most cases there is little to debate.
In the end, many Democrats end up voting for the nominee, as each of them did last week on a federal appeals court judge from Idaho.
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Oh come on Mitch. Just nuke it and be done with it.
All McConnell has to do is to change the Senate rules to speed up the process.
He’s the Senate majority leader, so apparently he is unwilling to do so.
I hope the president does hundreds of recess appointments.
McConnell is cooperating fully with the Democrats.
McConnell knows what the people who elected the majority in the House and Senate, and the President want. It’s past time to end his obstruction. Elections have consequences, remember?
It is all one large UNIPARTY.
At his current pace, the President won’t have his nominations completed for another eighteen months. We are six months in and only 138 of 555 have been nominated.
The Senate needs to make all stay in the chamber 24/7.
So, with that in mind, why is everyone so hard on Jeff Sessions for recusing himself?
He HAD to.
As a member of the Trump campaign, he was a target of the bogus, yet very real RussiaGate investigation. You can’t expect to get confirmed as AG when the MSM, Demoocrats and neverTrump RINOs all accept the Russian thing as truth and a conflict of interest.
If you don’t think it was real, ask yourself why, after six months it still hasn’t gone away.
Unfair, yes. Unreal, no.
It is real if MSM says its real.
It’s still dominating the news six months later, so you better believe it was real for Jeff Sessions back when he was trying to get confirmed.
What was Sessions supposed to do? He had to recuse himself to get confirmed, and by the way...
Trump knew this.
I’m a yUGe Trump supporter, but I hope he doesn’t throw Sessions under any bus.
He was a potential Otherwise he would
He was confirmed before he recused himself,so your timeframe is wrong.
Jeff Sessions recused himself on March 2.
He was confirmed January 8.
If you think the Russia thing is real, do you also think Anthropogenic Global Climate Disruption is real. That fraud has been front and center for over two decades.,
It is time Sessions un-recused himself, on his own volition, Fired his Deputy AG Rosenstein. Fired Mueller and hired some bulldog who gives zero f@cks to investigate, indict and imprison the Clinton Crime Cartel. He should also investigate every Congressman or Senator who entered the Senate poor and is now worth millions.
It is time to stop apologising and acquiescing to the swamp and start draining it!
Mitch & the boys want to keep the integrity of the Senate in place. Tradition is more important than results. Pres. Trump is a results man in a world of do nothings. Time to nuke the traditions and get things done or end up at the mercy of the Dims later on.
Was this the rate before or after McCain leaves?
No need. Just ask congress to adjourn for three days and recess appt. them all. Then when they get around to confirming them they will already be in their jobs.
It wasn't. I went back and searched the entire transcript of his January 10 confirmation hearing. There are recusal questions in there, and before that he was challenged on recusing from prosecuting HILLARY. See this post <- Link
"Muh Russia" didn't come up until AFTER Sessions was confirmed. Trump picked sessions on November 18. Confirmation hearings January 10 and 11 (others, not Sessions, appeared the second day). Flynn resigned in early February.
Bring them into continuous session until all are voted on, and keep them in session until those new nominees for those they rejected are voted on, etc., etc....
Or better yet, actually recess and let Trump make Recess appointments. That would be awesome and they could really get some work done. Mitch is going to have to chose a side very soon and get with the program.
So, we need to reelect him when this term is up.
I looked at the diagram in the Times today and it is frightful how many of the lower positions are unfilled compared with the last “president.” The lower ones I guess can’t be filled until the higher ones are. A true disgrace.
“It is time Sessions un-recused himself, on his own volition, Fired his Deputy AG Rosenstein. Fired Mueller and hired some bulldog who gives zero f@cks to investigate, indict and imprison the Clinton Crime Cartel. He should also investigate every Congressman or Senator who entered the Senate poor and is now worth millions.”
With or without Sessions (and like Trump, I’m sorry Sessions was nominated in the first place) all that you’ve laid out needs to happen. Sessions is a limp dick, Rosenstein is RAT POS, and Mueller is out “searching for a crime to pin on Trump” and should be fired. Personally, I’d opt for an effing pit bull for AG, a Legal “Mad Dog” Mattis! I guy who has the mirkins of those he’s prosecuted hanging on his wall, like a bunch of “pelts” like someone who hunts.
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