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Grassley blocks State Department nominations over Clinton emails
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is blocking 20 State Department nominations so that he, too, can get in on the Hillary Clinton email nothingburger.The chairman of the Judiciary Committee in a statement...
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Senate Democrats blast Republican slow-walking of key Treasury nominee
Sen. Shelby (R-AL) can't be bothered to answer questions about doing his actual job. Mitch McConnell's Senate is making headlines all over the place for stopping President Obama's judicial nominees...
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(Cross-posted at the Makeshift Academic)Yesterday, we all crawled out from our radiation shelters to behold the charred remains of the Senate landscape. You see, Harry "Major Kong" Reid engaged the...
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Reid laughs at idea that GOP will block more post-nuclear option
"You'll be sorry, now" is the mantra from Senate Republicans after Democrats voted to go nuclear on the filibuster. And of course The Village punditry point at those words and tsk-tsked Very Seriously...
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The potential silver lining to the post-nuclear Republican obstruction
Judiciary Committee hearings might be a lot more interesting, even with this guy. If there's one thing that's a given that the Senate will experience post-going nuclear, it's ongoing and probably even...
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Let the filibuster reform pearl-clutching commence
Dana Milbank has the vapors (and a really poor grasp of history and a total lack of perspective). Let's start with the title: "The Democrats' naked power grab." Because allowing the president to...
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What's next for filibuster reform
Now that the filibuster is officially dead for nominations to the executive and the judiciary, with the exception of nominations to the Supreme Court, what happens next? For the relative short term, it...
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McConnell: For going nuclear before he was against it
Harry Reid is having a fun day:I'm old enough to remember when Sen. McConnell insisted on up-or-down votes for judicial confirmations. https://t.co/...—@SenatorReid It's true. Back when he was Senate...
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The rules have changed: Reid pulls trigger on nuclear option
Kaboom! Republicans dared Harry Reid to do it, and he just did, finally. The Senate has voted to change the filibuster rules, 52-48. Democrats Carl Levin, Joe Manchin, Mark Pryor voted against...
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McConnell unleashes torrent of lies in response to Reid's nuclear threat
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proved himself to be the most fundamentally dishonest politician in the whole of Washington, D.C. this morning, in response to Sen. Harry Reid's announcement...
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Reid announces intention to break the filibuster today
Sen. Harry Reid opened Senate business this morning by making an extended case for what has to be an impending vote to break the filibuster on executive and judicial nominations. He laid out the long...
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Reid could hold filibuster busting vote today
Senate Republicans have been playing games all week, refusing to allow the Senate to move forward with a vote on the sexual assault amendments to the defense authorization bill because that's just...
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Reid to push multiple nominees before August recess
Perhaps recognizing that the best time to convince the Senate to get stuff done is right before a long recess that might be made a little shorter if they don't finish their work, Majority Leader Harry...
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Filibuster reformed? Not according to Republicans
Sen. John Cornyn, proudly grinding the Senate to a halt.So much for the Senate's kumbaya moment.Rep. Mel Watt’s nomination to lead a key housing agency appears in peril. The top Judiciary Committee...
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The 'bullshit' caucus in the GOP giving McConnell a headache
Mitch McConnell, losing. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) called "bullshit" on his "leader" Mitch McConnell in a meeting Wednesday, when McConnelll tried to reassert his dominance in the caucus and said that he...
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Marco Rubio egging on Reid to go nuclear
No agreements for him.Looks like someone is working really hard to re-establish his wing-nut credibility. There will be no compromise from Marco Rubio, no way. A day after the Senate reached agreement...
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Senate to have Wednesday votes on Export-Import Bank head
Senator Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have essentially inked the deal to avoid the nuclear option being used to circumvent minority filibusters of President Obama's executive nominations. The deal...
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With nuclear option held at bay, maybe it's time for the talking filibuster
Sen. Jeff MerkleyMajority Leader Harry Reid definitely got the better of the deal in the filibuster rules negotiation. The Republicans get the face-saving concession from Democrats of new National...
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Senate reaches deal on Cordray, possibly on NLRB nominations
Reports out of the Senate suggest a deal to allow for a confirmation vote for Richard Cordray to head up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been struck. We'll know in a matter of minutes, as...
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Reid refuses McConnell offer to drop nuclear option
Talks continued into Monday night and Tuesday morning after no deal emerged from the all-Senate meeting to avert filibuster rules reform. Late Monday evening, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered...
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