Posted on 02/13/2019 3:16:31 PM PST by Liberty7732
Senate Republicans on Wednesday moved ahead with a change to Senate rules that would significantly speed up most judicial and executive branch nominees by permanently slashing debate time.
The resolution was approved along party lines in the Senate Rules Committee. It will next head to the Senate floor for a vote, where the so-called nuclear option will be employed to pass it with just 51 votes instead of the typical 60, which will prevent Democrats from blocking it or having any say on the matter.
The rule change would specifically slash debate time from 30 hours to two hours for sub-Cabinet level executive branch nominees and district court judges.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Should have done this on day one
But nope the GOPee was too complacent and just thought Trump voters were going to vote them in 2018
I keep hearing this blather. Nothing comes of it.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Bunch of quisling soy boys who wouldn’t even defend their own daughters with force.
As long as they're talking about doing it they're not doing it.
When with a majority in both Houses of Congress they didn't fund the wall Republicans showed that they're half the same sort of corrupt pigs the democrats are just with a different line of crap they spew when running for election.
Ask one of the few honest Senators, retired or now in office, about how easy it is for the same people who give democrats their marching orders to get RINOs to cooperate with them and you'll get a colorful earful.
As a friend once told me, "they're street hooker cheap, they don't even hold out for high class call girl money", and cowards easily intimidated, too, in many cases.
It’s already out of committee and going to the Senate for a vote.
This move is only about nominees.
Yes, moving at the speed of a glacier.
So what? They should have made it a simple majority every step of the way sometime during February of 2017 right after Trump was sworn in.
Excwllent. Even a blind hog finds food occasionally.
SUPERMAJORITY votes are, imho, traditionally best reserved for existential decisions like, say, declarations of war
In other news... Congress has extended, yet again, the debate on whether the United States should get involved in the war of 1812.
Yes.
Wouldn’t it be great to have good representation in DC? The kind with a spine who are conservative and deliberate.
Don’t call it the nuclear option, it is the Harry Reid Rule: The Senate majority can unilaterally change the Senate Rules at any time with a simple majority vote of the Senators present.
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