Senate Democrats pushed three times as many cloture votes to stall President Donald Trump's nominees as were pushed during his four previous predecessors' combined first terms.
As of July 2, the Senate has used the cloture rule to force at least 30 hours of debate on 101 Trump nominees.
Just days away from Trump announcing a nomination to the Supreme Court, the pace of moving lower-level nominees will most assuredly slow even further.
Trump has 145 nominees still awaiting a Senate vote and 162 nominees still in committee.
While cloture-a procedure that requires 30 hours of debate-can't block a vote from occurring, it delays a vote long enough to create a backlog of nominees.
The Senate has confirmed 58 percent of Trump's nominees.
That's when Democrats controlled the Senate and killed the standard that 60 votes are needed to end a filibuster and proceed to a floor vote on lower court and executive branch nominees.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/03/senate-dem-stall-trump-nominees-at-record-compared-to-predecessors/
As of July 2, the Senate has used the cloture rule to force at least 30 hours of debate on 101 Trump nominees.
Just days away from Trump announcing a nomination to the Supreme Court, the pace of moving lower-level nominees will most assuredly slow even further.
Trump has 145 nominees still awaiting a Senate vote and 162 nominees still in committee.
While cloture-a procedure that requires 30 hours of debate-can't block a vote from occurring, it delays a vote long enough to create a backlog of nominees.
The Senate has confirmed 58 percent of Trump's nominees.
That's when Democrats controlled the Senate and killed the standard that 60 votes are needed to end a filibuster and proceed to a floor vote on lower court and executive branch nominees.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/03/senate-dem-stall-trump-nominees-at-record-compared-to-predecessors/
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