| Well done, ladies and gentlemen. Keep up this good work. |
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John
MaverickMcCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
(R-SC) objected to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 47.36702 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...’s request on Tuesday to temporarily replace ailing Sen. Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
(D-Calif.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, accused Democrats of trying to "change the numbers on the committee in a way that I think would be harmful to the Senate, and to pass out a handful of judges that I think should never be on the bench."
"With all due respect to Sen. Feinstein, I object," he added.
Reshuffling the composition on the panel, even temporarily, requires unanimous consent from all senators, meaning only one Republican needed to object Tuesday to block the resolution.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday his party will oppose any attempt by Democrats to temporarily replace Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee — calling the gambit a bid by President Biden’s party to "force through their very worst nominees."
"The supposed emergency is that Senate Democrats are unable to push through the small fraction of their nominees who are so extreme, so extreme and so unqualified, that they cannot win a single Republican vote in committee," the 81-year-old McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor.
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