| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/07/16, 8:54 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lost big in the filibuster battle that ended Tuesday morning. Senators struck a tentative deal to confirm seven nominees to run federal agencies and departments, in exchange for Democrats agreeing not to nuke the filibuster on executive branch
nominations — for now.
But McConnell is still winning the war. In his 6 1/2 year reign as Republican leader, the Kentuckian has so dramatically strengthened theminority’s muscle on routine matters that his concessions this week
amount to little more than an half step back toward normalcy.
Where McConnell Lost
Earlier this year McConnell corralled 42 other Republicans to sign a letter pledging to filibuster any nominee to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until Democrats weakened its regulatory authority. That threat went up in flames Tuesday as many of those same Republicans voted
Tuesday to advance Richard Cordray’s nomination — in exchange for nothing. The vote was 71-29.
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