Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The Senate Over Alabama Earmarks #p2 #gop
The only reason the Senate rules used to work is because Senators worked with each other in good faith and with restraint.
Now that the GOP senators have begun behaving worse than kindergartners the senate is broken. The rules need to be revamped.
He’s doing this on behalf of corporations. This will only get worse thanks to the Supreme Court CU v FEC ruling.
Report: Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The Senate Over AL Earmarks
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, CongressDaily (sub. req.) reports. The hold means no nominations can move forward unless Senate Democrats can secure a 60-member cloture vote to break it, or until Shelby lifts the hold.
Shelby has been tight-lipped about the holds, offering only an unnamed spokesperson to reporters today to explain them. Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke the news of the blanket hold this afternoon. Reid aides told CongressDaily the hold extends to “all executive nominations on the Senate calendar.”
According to the report, Shelby is holding Obama’s nominees hostage until a pair of lucrative programs that would send billions in taxpayer dollars to his home state get back on track. CongressDaily laid out the programs Shelby wants to move forward or else:
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