Senate Republicans are determined to restore long-standing practices to accelerate the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees amid unprecedented Democrat obstruction, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Tuesday.
“What [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer did was declare the nuclear option,” the Tennessee Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “What Republicans are saying is, let’s return to the way the Senate has worked for years. We want to get President Trump’s nominees confirmed and get them to work, putting in place the agenda the American people overwhelmingly voted for.”
The solution, she said, is to return to the practice of handling lower-level nominees by unanimous consent or voice vote.
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