Helen Dewar
A Senate legislative day may end in either adjournment or recess. If the Senate adjourns, a legislative day is officially over. If it merely recesses, however, the legislative day resumes on the following calendar day. In the case of a recess, the Senate may forego the rituals of the morn...
Before the action this weekend, Leahy said some 30 Obama judicial nominees, including seven to fill appeals court vacancies, were awaiting Senate confirmation. "A majority of the nominations pending on the Senate's calendar received unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 17 of t...
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Democrats did not provide a complete list, saying it might change. More than a dozen judicial nominations remained on the Senate’s calendar, and dozens of appointees to administration positions. Several Republicans fumed that Cruz had erred. ...
aOn Tuesday we told you about a group of Senate Republicans who were holding up confirmations for important executive and judicial nominations. Since he took office, President Obama's executive nominees have faced more filibusters than in the previous 60 years combined -- an unacceptable standard ...
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advise and consent to presidential nominations, is being weakened with the repeated, successful filibusters of certain federal judicial nominations.22 Because the Senate has not utilized the “nuclear” or “constitutional” option before, the consequences of doing so are unclear. The potential ...
It also led to even more cloture filings, creating a new problem in the Senate calendar. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has filed cloture on even noncontroversial Biden nominees. How much time does the cloture process take? The cloture process is meant to limit debate, but it takes ...
Since he took office, close to 30 judicial and political nominees have had their nominations blocked. “It’s no secret that the American people have probably never been more frustrated with Washington, and one of the reasons why that is, is that over the past five years, we’ve seen ...