By contrast, under the corruption of the filibuster rule that now dictates virtually all Senate matters except for the once-in-two-year Budget Reconciliation vote and the confirmation of Presidential appointments, virtually all legislation before the Senate now presumes an active filibuster in progress, requiring sixty votes for cloture and passage.
All the Senate is good for anyway is: passing legislation that liberals want, such as the recent prison reform rules; and naming post offices and federal buildings.
In 1894 the Senate enacted a law that removed the "h" from the end of the Pittsburg[h] Post Office's name.
That threat invites the Occam's Razor solution for the GOP: stop wasting time naming post offices, and start shifting into high gear on confirming the seventy-plus federal judges whom President Trump has named and who yet await Senate action to assign them to their benches.
Under yet another of the Senate's endless arcane rules - talk about Government shutdowns! - Senators are allowed to insist that each and every nominee be subjected to a full 30 hours of debate on the Senate floor.
Inasmuch as the nominee already has been through the wringer of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings - remember what those are like? - what is it that can be said further in thirty hours about a person's qualifications that cannot be said in ten hours, five hours, three hours? The whole aim of the Democrats has been to slow down the confirmation process, to jam the machinery, and to sabotage movement in the name of "The Resistance."
At the rate of thirty hours per nominee, seventy-two such dragged-out confirmations would require 30 x 72 = 2,160 hours of Senate time for all to be confirmed.
https://spectator.org/if-the-dems-wont-legislate-in-the-senate-devote-the-time-to-confirming-judges/
All the Senate is good for anyway is: passing legislation that liberals want, such as the recent prison reform rules; and naming post offices and federal buildings.
In 1894 the Senate enacted a law that removed the "h" from the end of the Pittsburg[h] Post Office's name.
That threat invites the Occam's Razor solution for the GOP: stop wasting time naming post offices, and start shifting into high gear on confirming the seventy-plus federal judges whom President Trump has named and who yet await Senate action to assign them to their benches.
Under yet another of the Senate's endless arcane rules - talk about Government shutdowns! - Senators are allowed to insist that each and every nominee be subjected to a full 30 hours of debate on the Senate floor.
Inasmuch as the nominee already has been through the wringer of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings - remember what those are like? - what is it that can be said further in thirty hours about a person's qualifications that cannot be said in ten hours, five hours, three hours? The whole aim of the Democrats has been to slow down the confirmation process, to jam the machinery, and to sabotage movement in the name of "The Resistance."
At the rate of thirty hours per nominee, seventy-two such dragged-out confirmations would require 30 x 72 = 2,160 hours of Senate time for all to be confirmed.
https://spectator.org/if-the-dems-wont-legislate-in-the-senate-devote-the-time-to-confirming-judges/
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