Only then, after cleared through an FBI background check and the Office of Government Ethics, is a nominee submitted to the United States Senate.
At this point, in the past four administrations combined — the last four administrations — the Senate
Senator Schumer is essentially weaponizing a Senate procedure
At this rate, the United States Senate would take eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees.
So, let me give you one more example of the comparison, historically. In the first entire term of the George H.W. Bush administration, his entire four years, he faced one cloture vote.
So let me give a couple more illustrations of specific individuals. Pat Pizzella is our nominee to be the Deputy Secretary of the
At the EPA, the Deputy Administrator, Andrew Wheeler, he was nominated
Yleem Poblete will be Assistant Secretary for Arms Control at the Department of State when confirmed.
So many of these positions,
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