Democrats block dozens of Trump nominees

[dlwickham]

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/22/trump-nominees-democrats-block-314775?lo=ap_c2

About 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees have been kicked back to the White House, prolonging an unusually high number of vacancies across his administration and escalating the Senate’s long-running nomination wars.

While the Senate agreed to keep roughly 150 of Trump’s picks for consideration next year, it refused to do so on roughly 100 others, according to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office. That means the White House will have to renominate them if Trump wants them installed.

Among the high-profile picks tossed back to the White House: Alex Azar, chosen as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas Farr, a district court nominee whose record on voting rights has infuriated Democrats; and K.T. McFarland, the former deputy national security adviser chosen as U.S. ambassador to Singapore who is now facing questions about her communications with ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn.

That will trigger a requirement that nominees’ paperwork be up to date — a gargantuan task for some nominees who've been languishing in the Senate for months, especially if their net worth changed dramatically because of the surging stock market.

[underpants]

1. Schumer is doing a great job

Just saying.

[Cha]

2. Mahalo, dlwickham

[kacekwl]

3. Good, jerk them around as much as possible.

Keep it up please.