@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer
Thanks for the post and the link. Fake News?!? Why do we bother with a committee then? It doesn't make sense to me. Why didn't Reid do it?
It maybe that the GOP doesn't have the balls to confirm without the public protection of the committee...I dunno. Can't wait to find out.
I don't think it's fake. I remember it being discussed as a possibility. I want to say it was either Mcconnell or Grassley that brought it up, and maybe one of the wonder ditzes saying they wouldn't support unless, but those memories I'm not really confident of.
I did find plenty of articles about rules for bypassing committees in general, and a couple over overtly biased ones claiming the Republicans had made it standard practice.
My guess, and that's all it is, is that Reid would never need to, since Dems tend to vote in lock step, while Reps let RINOs on important committees.