Posted on 04/10/2018 10:12:51 PM PDT by caww
Senate Republicans, frustrated by delaying tactics imposed by Democrats on President Trumps judicial and executive branch nominees, are on the verge of altering the Senate rules in order to speed up the process.
GOP lawmakers told the Washington Examiner Tuesday that momentum is building for a change in the Senate rules that would shorten the time frame allowed for lawmakers to debate each nominee.
One proposal by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., would reinstate a temporary rules change made by Democrats in 2013 that reduced debate time from 30 hours to eight hours for most executive branch nominations and from 30 hours to two hours for lower judicial branch nominations.
I think the momentum is growing steadily towards doing that, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said after a closed-door GOP meeting Tuesday.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said a time limit is under consideration in addition to other changes.
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Way too late, you GOPe fakers!
Mueller knows he has RINO rats support for everything, so he is going full speed regardless of legality.
The glacial, geriatric Senate is completely disfunctional. And almost impossible to change. Gotta get rid of the turtle! What happened to the book detailing McConnell’s family getting rich from the Chinese? He needs to be hammered on that, to start.
Why hasnt McConnell done anything about this??? ...or anything else for that comes to mind!,,,,
Oh, just another Principled Conservative, scared to death that we might win one and remove another point for him to bellyache about.
Why do they even need 8 hours of debate? It only takes a few minutes to vote.
Think about this:
As PDJT gets his trade deal on the Chicoms....there will be a big down-tick on trade from China ...and a small up-tick on trade from USA to China.
Net result less freight carries plying across the Pacific
And a big hurt to the Turtle-Voss family Chinese based shipping company.
Here they all are with one of their freighters
Mitch McConnells father-in-law, James Chao (second from right), at the christening of the Ping May in Shanghai (Image: Shanghai Mulan Education Foundation)
Sorry...Voss = Chao
If they want 30 hours to interview a nominee, then fine. Put ALL the currently pending nominees in offices in the capital. Lawmakers who want to drop in and chat with them, may do so. At the end of the week, hold a rapid series of votes on each. Done.
How long did this temporary change last? Probably until Republicans retook the Senate. It should have been reinstated as soon as PDJT was inaugurated.
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