Senate GOP seeks to change rules for Trump picks
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 12/29/17 12:41 PM EST
Republicans are mulling changing the Senate's rules to speed up consideration of President Trump's nominees.
GOP senators want to cut down the amount of debate time needed to confirm hundreds of the president’s picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senate’s rulebook to stonewall and slow-walk nominees and the GOP agenda.
Republicans have been privately discussing the potential changes for months, but support for the move appears to be growing amid mounting frustration about the pace of nomination votes.
“It merely shortens what is currently an unreasonably long process,” said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366260-senate-gop-seeks-to-change-rules-for-trump-picks
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so guess what? 
Plus the split will soon be 51 - 49 once Jones is sworn in. And the irony is that the GOP CONTROLS the Committees and their schedules. And the last couple years Obama was in office after they took control of the Senate, they refused to even schedule any confirmation hearings at all (see Merrick Garland as the biggest example).
Hopefully more on DU will see this and will take note that Democrats are not just sitting there doing nothing.
NO FUCKING MERCY!!!!!!!! 
