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Mitch McConnell Has A Plan To Speed Up Confirmation Process For Trump Nominees

Democrats have been doing everything they can to slow the confirmation process for Trump nominees at multiple levels.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has had enough and he has a plan to stop the obstruction.

The Legal Insurrection blog reports:

Mitch McConnell pushes forward with rule change to speed lower-level confirmations

No change for SCOTUS, Appeals Court, Cabinet and senior nominees, “[b]ut for most other nominations – for the hundreds of lower-level nominations that every new president makes – post-cloture debate time would be reduced from 30 hours to 2 hours.”…

McConnell is finally doing what has been threatened for over a year, to reduce floor “debate” time to get around Democrat obstruction where they invoke 30 hours of debate even for non-controversial non-debatable nominees. […]

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