Schumer kept the Senate in session to consider a bunch of nominations

[onenote]

and, possibly, get around Tuberville's blockade on military nominations:

First, after the vote on the stopgap, it appears that a lot of the Senate cleared out. But Schumer stayed on and called up a number of nominations via unanimous consent--and no one objected.

Cloture was voted on two judges this way. It's not completely clear to me whether they were then confirmed.

But even more significantly, Schumer then called up a bloc of military nominations. I think, but am not certain, that these are the nominations that Tuberville has been blocking. This is from the transcript of the action taken before the Senate adjourned for the night:

MR. PRESIDENT, I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT THE SENATE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING NOMINATIONS, ALL NOMINATIONS PLACED ON THE SECRETARY'S DESK IN THE AIR FORCE, ARMY, MARINE CORPS AND NAVY, THAT THE NOMINATIONS BE CONFIRMED EN BLOC, THE MOTIONS TO RECONSIDER BE CONSIDERED MADE AND LAID UPON THE TABLE WITH NO INTERVENING ACTION OR DEBATE, THAT NO FURTHER MOTIONS BE IN ORDER TO ANY OF THE NOMINATIONS AND THAT THE PRESIDENT BE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED OF THE SENATE'S ACTIONS.

[Lochloosa]

1. The Cloture allows it to go to a vote for the full Senate. They'll be confirmed.

Don't take my word for it, but I believe that is how it works.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. I'm reading the promotions we're only lower rank

None of the generals for the Joint Chiefs.

[lastlib]

4. "...all nominations placed on the Secretary's desk...."

Sounds to me like everything Tom Potato was blocking. But I've been wrong before...... :scratchhead:

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. What I was reading was that the Secretary's desk is a different pile

But I also read that on Twitter, so who knows…

[DemocraticPatriot]

3. HA! All the Republicans went home, they were tired...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. They had hamberders that weren't going to eat themselves

[Randomthought]

5. Republicans are not smart

They are evil, smarmy, sly but not smart.

[AZ8theist]

8. WHAT??!?? They are lead by a "Stabill Jeeenyus"!!

[calimary]

7. He's a crafty one, that Chuck Schumer.

ALWAYS look for the work-around.

NOTHING’S ever perfect, and no loophole is hermetically sealed.

And oddly enough, if they think we Dems are suckers, or easily rolled, THAT’S when we GOT ‘em!!! Cuz they’ll be cocky and complacent. They won’t expect it and they won’t even realize they’ve been HAD - until too late.