McConnell Pushed to Force Senate to Stay Until Job's Done

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is being pressured to keep the Senate in session longer so the chamber can confirm President Donald Trump's nominees and pass legislation on government funding, The Hill reports.

With White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short and additional conservative leaders, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., on Tuesday said Senate Democrats were obstructing nominees.

Perdue also said there were "a number of senators who will submit a letter to [McConnell] later this week . . . and that letter will basically, again, encourage the leader to keep us here weekends, on Mondays and Fridays when necessary, and certainly in the August break if we haven't funded the government by then."

Dozens of conservative groups last month said Republicans were "failing" to get the work done in the Senate.

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