Kerry Picket:
The Washington Post and Pew Research Center show the Senate confirmation process for the Trump administration is the most obstructionist in recent history, saying that the average time from an appointee’s nomination to his or her confirmation is 41 days.
The Trump White House has declared 117 nominees so far for the 559 posts that require a Senate confirmation vote. The posts include cabinet secretaries, ambassadors and other leadership jobs. Overall, about 1,200 positions require Senate confirmation.
“Less than five months into Trump’s tenure, 25 of his executive and judicial nominees have been the subjects of votes on cloture – the Senate term for limiting debate and moving a bill, nominee or other issue to a final up-or-down vote. That’s more than have occurred during the entire term of all but one Congress since 1949, when the Senate first allowed cloture to be moved on nominations, and Trump has yet to nominate people to fill hundreds of other executive-branch jobs,” the Pew Research Center reported last week.
Pew adds, “The exception mentioned above – the 113th Congress of 2013-14, which held a record 150 cloture votes on nominations by newly re-elected President Barack Obama – illuminates how the politics of presidential nominations have changed dramatically in the past few decades.”
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway told New York Conservative Party members last week that liberals in Washington would rather see hundreds of administration posts unfilled than a Trump appointee in those jobs.
The Washington Compost and P.U. Research Center determened that the trump presidency is cuasing snowflakes to have nightmares and insomnia
Obstructionist? Please. The Washington Post and Pew drew no such conclusion. You’re not being obstructionist when hardly anyone is being nominated. It’s the Trump administration that has slowed the process down to a crawl.
And it’s not as if the standards for approval have been set far too high, either. For example, this appallingly unqualified nominee was confirmed. It makes one wonder what it takes to be voted down.
Of course, in this case, it took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President to push the nomination through. A couple of republican Senators couldn’t bring themselves to vote in favor of this woman’s confirmation, no matter the pressure they were under.
@Greg:
the radicalized muslin terrorist obama was not qualified to run this country. neither was the drunk biden or whore dog drunk kerry. but one must never forget the slut who stole 8 billion dollars.