Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 12/29/17 12:41 PM EST
Republicans are mulling changing the Senate's rules to speed up consideration of President Trump's nominees.
GOP senators want to cut down the amount of debate time needed to confirm hundreds of the presidents picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senates rulebook to stonewall and slow-walk nominees and the GOP agenda.
Republicans have been privately discussing the potential changes for months, but support for the move appears to be growing amid mounting frustration about the pace of nomination votes.
It merely shortens what is currently an unreasonably long process, said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366260-senate-gop-seeks-to-change-rules-for-trump-picks
Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)onetexan
(13,069 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)Even if you stopped this madness today, the damage done will greatly harm minorities and consumers for 50 years.
bullimiami
(13,105 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)I remember that 1 year wasn't enough to give a nominee for the SC a hearing.
BumRushDaShow
(129,651 posts)so guess what?
Plus the split will soon be 51 - 49 once Jones is sworn in. And the irony is that the GOP CONTROLS the Committees and their schedules. And the last couple years Obama was in office after they took control of the Senate, they refused to even schedule any confirmation hearings at all (see Merrick Garland as the biggest example).
Hopefully more on DU will see this and will take note that Democrats are not just sitting there doing nothing.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)rockfordfile
(8,706 posts)They_Live
(3,241 posts)in general.
shraby
(21,946 posts)court pick. They can just go whine in the corner.
WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)great idea.
bluestarone
(17,062 posts)NO FUCKING MERCY!!!!!!!!
geretogo
(1,281 posts)LuckyLib
(6,821 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,290 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)family that it surely is . All traitors , all of them .
red dog 1
(27,872 posts)UpInArms
(51,285 posts)the GreedyOldPigs can suck on it.