Senate Dems Push Obama Nominees, GOP Bides Time
ALAN FRAM – DECEMBER 8, 2013, 8:15 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh from shackling the traditional blocking ability of the Senate's minority party, Democrats are ready to muscle through President Barack Obama's nominees for pivotal judgeships and other top jobs.
Despite last month's Democratic power play, Senate Republicans retain the power to slow, though not derail, Obama's appointments.
Left unchanged were other rules that the out-of-power party could use to grind the chamber's work to an excruciating crawl. That ranges from requiring clerks to read voluminous bills and amendments to forcing repeated procedural votes.
"There are so many ways of slowing things down in the Senate," said Robert Dove, the Senate's former long-time parliamentarian.
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