Milley disputes claim he recommended Trump attack Iran

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6. It's usually about 2 - 3 hours per person

because the standing Rules are usually 2 hours of debate, equally divided and then there is a "15 minute vote", which often takes much longer because they literally do it by roll call (they refuse to upgrade to voting "by electronic device" like the House does), meaning they wait for Senators to actually register their votes when their name is called, and then give any who missed it, one more opportunity to vote before deciding to cut it off.

There were some estimates that it could literally take 30+ days working 24/7 to go through the backlog and that's not counting any that are coming in after they start the process since promotions are rolling.

The only way to shorten that (aside from allowing the "unanimous consents" ) is to pass a special Rule to streamline it, perhaps minimizing the debate time (and you'll often have just a couple participating in the debate and they don't use the full time... but you'll also sometimes have others who will try to use up that time bloviating about nothing and only cursorily relating it to the nominee). Alternately they could bundle groups of names under that 2 hour debate - again, via a Rules change.