The change the Senate will vote on next week would significantly cut the time allotted for floor debate on numerous non-Cabinet agency officials and dozens of district court judges.
By Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow March 28 at 4:33 PM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is setting up a major fight in the Senate next week over the chamber’s rules, as Republicans plan to deploy a controversial procedural maneuver to speed up consideration of hundreds of lower-level Trump administration nominees.
“This is a change the institution needs,” McConnell said Thursday. “This is a reform that every member should embrace: a functional process for building their administrations. Let’s give the American people a government they actually elected.” McConnell and Senate Republicans did the same — but for Supreme Court nominees — in 2017 as the Senate took up the nomination of now-Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
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