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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The parliamentarian rulings break both ways, and you know, we lose a few, we win a few.
We’re working with the stakeholder community and our members on both sides to figure out if that’s something we can execute on and get done," Thune said.
The naming of Pulte to that position, although the timing arguably wasn't the best, I still don't think it ought to derail something that's this important.
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