Senate Democrats are gearing up to challenge every appointee President-elect Donald Trump submits, according to a Monday report by Politico.
They don’t have the numbers to actually reject an appointee, but they do have the power to drag on the process as long as possible. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the confirmation of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
“They’ve been rewarded for stealing a Supreme Court justice. We’re going to help them confirm their nominees, many of whom are disqualified?” fumed Sen. Sherrod Brown. “It’s not obstruction, it’s not partisan, it’s just a duty to find out what they’d do in these jobs.”
Most confirmations require 51 votes, an easy bar if every Republican holds the party line. Democrats do have the ability to force McConnell to hold procedural votes for the nominees. Ranking Democrats are promising a series of such votes.
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10 comments:
...but the "R's" are the "Party of No".
I get it.
/sarc. off
If Hillary had won her appointees would have went straight through not partisan my butt
The new "Party of No"!
Liberal hypocrisy at its finest! It's OK when they do it - but obstructionist when others do it...
So glad the American people woke up to their constant crap!
I am not sure how that is serving the public, which is ultimately their job, right?
They will, in the end, be approved. This is just an exercise in stupid.
The party of I'm no fool is more like it.
They don't need exercise to claim stupid . It's a fact and a given.
Let them try and stall. That's all it will end up being is stalling because in the end we will win. The whole fed govt is now controlled by the party of the intelligent, the responsible, the moral people. Highest ever of states controlled by Republicans too. It's great to see people are finally wising up to the evil, filthy, lying democrat party and finally moving forward and voting for the Republicans.
All 6 of them?
SIX??? How and when did that number increase to 6? I want answers and NAMES - PRONTO!
Silly Dems, they really want to mess with the people?
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