'Party of No' changes tune to 'I object' this past Friday 108 times

May 9
Las Vegas Democrat Examiner
David Phillips

This past Friday morning Democratic Senators asked for approval on 108 White house nominations and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said, “I object” to each of the nominees.

The Republican party has been defying current Senate rules through a loophole in the wording which says that Senators must publish their identities and justifications for holds within six legislative days, but the Republicans don’t care about the Senate rule. They just have another Republican Senator place the secret hold on the sixth day.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), called the practice "hold-laundering," which is when senators pass a secret hold off to one another before hitting the six-day trigger for making their names public and thereby keep a hold in place indefinitely.

Senator Coburn stood on the Senate floor representing these republicans who put the secret holds on the nominees so they wouldn’t have to show their face. The reasons for the holds are mostly about pork dollars that these Republicans want for their States.

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