WASHINGTON — President Obama’s executive branch nominees continued to cruise through the Senate on Thursday, including his controversial pick to be labor secretary, Thomas E. Perez, as Republican anger over a deal to avoid a weakening of the filibuster seeped into the open.
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Senate Confirms Nominees as G.O.P. Discontent Rises
Posted: Jul 20, 2013
approximately 50% of all filibusters ever, in the history of our nation.)
Christopher Gregory/The New York Times
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, has complained about the deal on filibusters.
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and JEREMY W. PETERS
Published: July 18, 2013
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Obama’s Labor Nominee Faces G.O.P. Critics in Senate (April 19, 2013)
The Senate, along strict party lines, 54-46, gave final confirmation to Mr. Perez, the Justice Department’s civil rights chief, as the president’s second labor secretary, then voted 59-40 to confirm his nominee to be the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Gina McCarthy, 154 days after the last E.P.A. head stepped down.
Behind closed doors and in the public halls of the Capitol, Republican senators expressed deep regret over a deal many now say gave them nothing. Mr. Obama will get seven nominees confirmed, including some strongly opposed by conservatives. He will resurrect the National Labor Relations Board, which many Republicans believe tilts labor disputes toward the unions, and will sidestep mounting pressure to increase oversight of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In exchange, Republicans did not even get a promise that Democrats will not change the rules on executive branch nominees with a 51-vote strong-arm maneuver in the future.
“There wasn’t any deal. They got what they wanted. We basically rolled over,” said Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama. “What changed is the Democrats threatened to change the rules, and they got the agreement without changing the rules.”
Rest of article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/us/politics/senate-confirms-labor-secretary-nominee.html
I think the dems should go ahead and change the rules. - ZvilleMT
[ In Reply To ..]Each side has been threatening to do so for decades. However, dems need to remember that they were the ones that followed through with the threat when they are no longer in the majority.
That's, of course, why they did not now, or before. - An authoritarian Senate too would be a disaster.nm
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