We've got a crisis, and it's time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice, and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a president to get his team into place.
Thune discusses the urgency of changing Senate rules for confirming presidential nominees.
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If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.
If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have the votes to do that and so that’s not a — that’s just not a realistic option
Well, that's nice of him. I guess. I don't know, what do you say on that? That's a decision that's made by my colleagues.
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