Dick Durbin: “There was a time when both parties would agree that it’s unacceptable for this to happen, regardless of whether the…”

Why? Because the Republicans are losing the majority and they’re afraid that unqualified MAGA loyalists won’t withstand close scrutiny when Democrats are in the majority.

Under the Committee’s precedents, these two nominees can’t be confirmed before the end of this Congress…So, Republicans are breaking the rules to jam through these nominees and avoid on obvious thing—on January 3, there will be a new…

Unfortunately, it appears our Republican colleagues, who I thought learned a lesson from last Tuesday’s election, did not get the message…

Mr. Chairman, there are many things we still can do… One of them is not to expedite nominees who have not been carefully vetted. I hope we don’t accept that as a standard in this Committee.