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Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« on: December 29, 2017, 06:24:53 pm »
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 president’s picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senate’s 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.

Read more at: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366260-senate-gop-seeks-to-change-rules-for-trump-picks
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2017, 06:48:14 pm »
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2017, 07:39:50 pm »
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2017, 08:13:08 pm »
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GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and John McCain (Ariz.) previously told The Hill that they wouldn’t support further rules changes. Collins, who has been in the middle of a health care fight, declined to comment before the holiday recess on Lankford’s proposal.

But if they voted "no," Republicans wouldn’t have the votes to unilaterally change the rules.

IOW, it's not going to happen before McCain kicks the bucket, now that AL has been lost to the GOP.  Now we may know why he is still clinging to power.
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2017, 03:42:08 am »
They successfully got rid of the "blue slip rule" that was used to derail Republican judicial nominees.

So... get to work and get rid of this rule, as well!
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2017, 03:49:17 am »
Almost a year in office and still not having the staff to do his job.

No way it should be taking this long.
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2018, 08:18:44 pm »
Even when it became plain to Hitler's military that the war was lost they still fought a bitter and bloody retreat every inch of the way back to Berlin.

What's it supposed to take in DC?

4 Consecutive Republican Presidents to clean out the Democrat mess?
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Re: Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2018, 08:30:52 pm »
Quote from: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 01, 2018, 08:18:44 pm
Even when it became plain to Hitler's military that the war was lost they still fought a bitter and bloody retreat every inch of the way back to Berlin.

What's it supposed to take in DC?

4 Consecutive Republican Presidents to clean out the Democrat mess?

Bureaucrats and GOP Senators will fight to literally their last breath to save their sinecures.  I imagine Generals are the same way, willing to fight to their soldiers' last breaths.
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