Up Or Down, Here’s The Road To Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Vote
7:45 PM 10/04/2018
Tim Pearce
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell began the process for the Senate to vote up or down on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, which might happen late Saturday.
McConnell and at least 15 other senators filed for cloture — a vote that signals the end of Senate debate and beginning of the final voting process — on Kavanaugh’s confirmation Wednesday night.
The cloture motion will “ripen†through Thursday and Friday morning until 1 p.m., the latest the cloture vote will likely be held. All 100 Senators may agree to cut the “ripening†period short and hold the cloture vote at 10:30 a.m. Friday morning, however, Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) policy director Rachel Bovard told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Basically, all the senators have to agree†to cut cloture short, Bovard said. “What is probably going on is they all want to go home. They have evening events or they have an afternoon event or whatever. They just want to have the vote.â€
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