Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 12/29/17 12:41 PM EST

Republicans are mulling changing the Senate's rules to speed up consideration of President Trump's nominees.

GOP senators want to cut down the amount of debate time needed to confirm hundreds of the president’s picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senate’s rulebook to stonewall and slow-walk nominees and the GOP agenda.

Republicans have been privately discussing the potential changes for months, but support for the move appears to be growing amid mounting frustration about the pace of nomination votes.

“It merely shortens what is currently an unreasonably long process,” said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366260-senate-gop-seeks-to-change-rules-for-trump-picks

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Now that they know they will lose bigly in 2018

[onetexan]

16. yeap, trying to pack the gov with as many crooked bastards as they can

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The stolen election is resulting in our courts becoming a violent joke.

Even if you stopped this madness today, the damage done will greatly harm minorities and consumers for 50 years.

[bullimiami]

3. funny how it didnt bother them when they were stonewalling all of Obamas nominees. FOR 6 YEARS.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I just sent what you said to Shelby, our Senator. n/t

[Hav]

4. The irony

I remember that 1 year wasn't enough to give a nominee for the SC a hearing.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. The 60 vote threshold was removed for ALL nominees

so guess what?

Plus the split will soon be 51 - 49 once Jones is sworn in. And the irony is that the GOP CONTROLS the Committees and their schedules. And the last couple years Obama was in office after they took control of the Senate, they refused to even schedule any confirmation hearings at all (see Merrick Garland as the biggest example).

Hopefully more on DU will see this and will take note that Democrats are not just sitting there doing nothing.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[rockfordfile]

7. I think Obama should have been more aggressive with his nominees

[They_Live]

11. He should have been more aggressive

in general.

[shraby]

8. NONE of them can possibly be longer that Obama's supreme

court pick. They can just go whine in the corner.

[WhiteTara]

9. Bastards...they have no Mother

[chelsea0011]

12. Well, of course they will.

[mdbl]

13. Yes let's rush through the idiots trump picks for important positions

great idea.

[bluestarone]

14. when we get control there better be

NO FUCKING MERCY!!!!!!!!

[geretogo]

19. I second that !!

[LuckyLib]

20. Amen!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. After stonewalling Obama's for 8 years

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. CONfirming CONs judges is key RepubliCON strategy, because they know their time is getting short.

[geretogo]

18. I don't see how there can be any one out there that can't see the GOP as the criminal mafia crime

family that it surely is . All traitors , all of them .

[red dog 1]

21. Kick

[UpInArms]

22. two words .... Merrick Garland

the GreedyOldPigs can suck on it.