Democrats Have Forgotten About Establishing A Floor

That fact means democrats have at least some power they could use.

Democrats have forgotten about establishing a floor.

Miguel estrada was left hanging for 28 months before he withdrew though he had support from 55 senators. Democrats were outraged of course but were short of tools with which to respond. As the minority party following a disastrous midterm in 2014 they could not force a committee or a floor. Bush s first term senate democrats pioneered the use of the filibuster to block nominees to the circuit courts.

If the roles were reversed and mcconnell were in the minority we all know he would find a way to grind the process to a halt. More than 6 5 million americans have been infected with the virus and more than 194 000 have died. Vis à vis the filibuster the journal wrote it s mostly forgotten now but in george w. If democrats manage to hold the house of representatives and win back the senate and the white house in november the party will have full control of the federal government for the first time in.

While democrats power to stop a trump nominee is certainly limited there s one way to know they have at least some power to obstruct. Senate democrats blocked the gop s attempt to advance a skinny 500 billion coronavirus. That s the number of votes needed in the senate to. Even as the high court s ideological balance is.

Senate democrats on tuesday introduced legislation that would establish a task force to investigate claims that the trump administration politicized health agencies response to the coronavirus. That was also unprecedented.