I would think that would be appropriate only in the sense that if it is not being used, go ahead and bring it to the vote and get it resolve...
I would not only in the sense that that seems to be a genie out of the bottle at this point.
With some rare exceptions, obviously, with some very heated Cabinet officials, this rule that I am proposing would not change those a bit.
The elimination, obviously, of the 60-vote protection, except for the Supreme Court, was done by a Congress controlled by Democrats.
I literally took the exact same language as 2013, removed the sunset, and said this becomes permanent.
The joy of the Senate is the minority can always express their displeasure in a multitude of different ways.
The hardest hit right now would be State Department and DOD.
Let us make it permanent and say this is how we are going to continue to function.
We have to determine how we are going to do this.
We have to be able to solve it.
They are going to put some people up that are not going to perform well, that Senators from both parties should step back and say our advice...
Even 54 would be--that is a larger number of requests even for a cloture vote than the last four Congresses combined.
I think we should do it, and it is not just for this Congress.
We did not have a confirmed individual, so our farmers and ranchers had to wait for weeks.
It took about 50 days during the Obama administration, and it took about 30 or 40 days during the Bush administration time and during the Cl...
Losing that time period is a great loss to the American people.
Something has to be done.
We have learned as a body that we are now either going to do nominees or we are going to do legislation, but we cannot do both.
