James Lankford's idea for confirming presidential nominees more quickly
by Joel Gehrke | Dec 24, 2017, 12:01 AM
President Trump will never have a full complement of political appointees if the Senate doesn’t start voting more quickly, according to a Republican who thinks he can convince Democrats to speed up the process.
“We may disagree on the exact solution or the exact timing of the solution but, we understand there is a real problem,†Sen. James Lankford told the Washington Examiner.
The nature of that “problem†lies in the details of the Senate rules; or, rather how the two parties have used those rules to block their opponents’ priorities and retaliate against past abuses of power. It’s a byzantine topic — case in point: Lankford wants to shorten the amount of post-cloture debate on presidential nominees — but the clash has a major influence on the day-to-day operations of government. If unresolved, it threatens to force a subtle but significant change to the structure of the United States Congress.
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