Dick Durbin: “The best tool we have to combat this growing environmental threat is the immediate completion of the BRIP.”

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.

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…

The majority is also violating numerous longstanding [Committee] standards in a desperate attempt to confirm the [un]qualified loyalists to lifetime appointments before Democrats take the majority.

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.