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Friday, June 08, 2018

Nate Jackson: McConnell: Obstructing Dems to Blame for No Recess

“Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. “Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees.”

Vacation was set to begin Aug. 3 and run through Labor Day, leaving just three weeks to complete appropriations work before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. That kind of last-minute scrambling is part of how we end up with lousy budgets like the omnibus passed in March. So McConnell did the right thing here by eliminating all but the first week of the break, and he’s in sync with President Donald Trump while doing it. “The Senate should get funding done before the August break, or NOT GO HOME,” Trump declared in May.

As McConnell noted, appropriations bills aren’t the only problem. Democrats have vigorously obstructed Trump’s nominees. Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) observed, “We still have 271 nominations to confirm.”

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 8, 2018 at 9:02 AM

    "...historic obstruction ... of the president’s nominees..."

    I guess you forgot about 2008-2016. Most. Obstruction. Ever.

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  2. AnonymousJune 8, 2018 at 9:39 AM

    It's about time the annual chain of stupid was broken. These people were hired to do a job, so do it!

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  3. AnonymousJune 8, 2018 at 9:41 AM

    McConnel is doing this for show. Good idea but he is the one that has held up hundreds of Bills from reaching the Floor that has passed the House. My question is this just a political move or he is finally allow Bills to come to the Senate Floor? He has been an obstructionist right along with the Democrats. He has not brought up the National Reciprocity Law.

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