This slow walking of nominees started under Bush43 by Democrats.
Democrats complained that Republicans did this to Obama judges, but I cannot find anything close to what we see today.
What bothers me about this whole ‘debate’ business is that if you really had something significant to say, then I’d be all for open four-star debate. But these ‘chats’ that occur and ranked as ‘debate’ are one-star moments of glory, and without much value. In some cases, it’d be like dragging in some barber from Tulsa to gab for fifteen minutes on the value of $15 haircuts. Worthless chatter....ought to be banned.
Maybe we ought to authorize a panel of five people to sit in the Senate chamber with a buzzer, and if you are inflicting marginal talk on something....once you had three of the five witnesses buzz you....you get taken down from the debate.