This week: McConnell tees up nominations ahead of Memorial Day
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is turning to President Trump's nominees as the chamber prepares to head out of town for a one-week break.
The focus on nominations comes after the House returned on Friday to enable remote voting by proxy, largely along party lines, and passed a roughly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package that has been declared "dead on arrival" in the GOP controlled Senate.
The House is out of town this week, though it's expected to return next week to take up a Senate-passed bill that would reauthorize three provisions of the USA Freedom Act, a 2015 reform law, and make some changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, or FISA, Court. The Senate is expected to leave town on Thursday afternoon until June 1.
Much of the Senate's drama this week will be centered off the floor: Trump fired Steve Linick, the inspector general for the State Department, over the weekend, prompting fierce backlash from Democrats, and some Republicans, because it marked the latest watchdog sidelined by the president amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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