Saturday, September 27, 2014

Timing is everything.

Changed Senate rule eases way for Holder successor
Democratic changes to the filibuster last year should give President Obama's attorney general pick a gliding path through the Senate in the lame-duck session. Last November, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid changed Senate rules so that nominations for Cabinet positions and most judicial posts needed only 51 votes, instead of the 60 that had been required. That means the person President Obama nominates to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder will not face a potential Republican filibuster.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Birds of a feather.. Reid needs to be neutered.

Anonymous said...

The tyranny of the bare majority - whipped to it by Party affilliation.

The Party - not We the People - RULE!

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