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Senate Republicans change rules to push through Trump nominees (www.pbs.org)

submitted 9 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What rules did they change specifically, and how were they able to do that?

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From the article they made it possible to process them in groups. Before, it was one nomination at a time and the senate dems were slow rolling it to stall out the process. Now the repubes can approve groups of them.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I read that, just curious how and why were they able to process a group without the dems slowing down atleast the group hearing

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

Found this in an AP news article:

The new rules allow Senate Republicans to move multiple nominees with a simple majority vote — a process that would have previously been blocked with just one objection. The rules don’t apply to judicial nominations or high-level Cabinet posts.