The Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement this afternoon:
“Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled. Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees.”
Finally, McConnell called the Democrats' bluff on their obstruction of the work of the Senate.
Most likely, this working through the August recess will not last for more than a week. Democrats are not going to want to give up their vacations and their time campaigning back in the home state so that they can stay to delay the approval of the confirmation of some nominee for Assistant Secretary of Commerce or the general counsel of the Department of the Interior or even a judge for the District Court in the District of Montana. They are also not going to want to stay in DC to fight passage of the budget for the Department of Labor and the like. Most likely we will see some big compromise move in which all pending nominees are passed by a voice vote in ten minutes, two or three appropriations measures will get passed and the Senate will then recess for the rest of August.
It will be fun in the meantime to watch the Democrats squirm.
“Due to the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats of the president’s nominees, and the goal of passing appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, the August recess has been canceled. Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president’s nominees.”
Finally, McConnell called the Democrats' bluff on their obstruction of the work of the Senate.
Most likely, this working through the August recess will not last for more than a week. Democrats are not going to want to give up their vacations and their time campaigning back in the home state so that they can stay to delay the approval of the confirmation of some nominee for Assistant Secretary of Commerce or the general counsel of the Department of the Interior or even a judge for the District Court in the District of Montana. They are also not going to want to stay in DC to fight passage of the budget for the Department of Labor and the like. Most likely we will see some big compromise move in which all pending nominees are passed by a voice vote in ten minutes, two or three appropriations measures will get passed and the Senate will then recess for the rest of August.
It will be fun in the meantime to watch the Democrats squirm.
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