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The 8/9/17 StateDept phone directory lists 227 posts as "vacant," 164 as "acting." and there still seems to be no effort to fill them .... STILL
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From NYT
Democrats have required cloture votes on 31 of 52 nominees approved so far. To be sure, the Trump administration was slow to begin making nominations for the top jobs. But there are currently almost 50 people ready and awaiting Senate action, including national security officials who face votes this week. More than 200 Obama administration nominees had been confirmed at this point in 2009, according to the White House.
Democrats are not denying that they are slowing the process to protest how Senate Republicans have handled the health care bill. It’s also payback for the way Republicans forced through some early nominees without the proper paperwork.
Democrats have required cloture votes on 31 of 52 nominees approved so far. To be sure, the Trump administration was slow to begin making nominations for the top jobs. But there are currently almost 50 people ready and awaiting Senate action, including national security officials who face votes this week. More than 200 Obama administration nominees had been confirmed at this point in 2009, according to the White House.
Democrats are not denying that they are slowing the process to protest how Senate Republicans have handled the health care bill. It’s also payback for the way Republicans forced through some early nominees without the proper paperwork.
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Now are we talking post that need senate approval, because if so, the Democrats are proving better than the republicans at stalling in committee and have slowed the approval process down to a slow crawl.
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Well maybe democrats shouldn't be stalling progress like a cancerous tumor
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CW4 Guy Butler
Not even close. There are 47 nominations pending in the Senate, 35 of which were received by them since 11 July.
20 weren't forwarded until August.
https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/one_item_and_teasers/nom_cal.htm
20 weren't forwarded until August.
https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/one_item_and_teasers/nom_cal.htm
U.S. Senate: Nominations on Calendar
Nominations on Calendar
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Cpl Benjamin Long
that doesn't prove anything other than 35 seats were provided to 45 nominees.. Democrats are still obstructing in other matters, since I did not frame the argument as State department seats, your evidence is useless.
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CW4 Guy Butler
Sorry - 47 nominations pending out of 296 total nominations made. Guess I should have pointed that out to begin with.
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Cpl Benjamin Long
CW4 Guy Butler - so if 16 % of the nominations have gone through that mean congress is stalling 84% of them, only proves congressional democrats are obstructing 84%
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