![]() ![]() Beginning in late July, after the health care bill failed to muster the needed 51 votes, senators scattered far and wide. The senators were David Perdue of Georgia, Steve Daines of Montana, Joni Ernst of Iowa, John Kennedy of Louisiana, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Luther Strange of Alabama, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. They argued that the Senate should spend the month focused on fixing health care, funding the government, dealing with the debt ceiling, passing a budget resolution and revamping the tax code. Supreme Court subsequently unanimously ruled that under the Constitution the Senate needed to be away for at least 10 full days for a president to act on his own.īefore the Senate proved unable to pass a health care bill, 10 Republican senators wrote Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asking him to cancel the August recess. President Barack Obama challenged the recess loophole in 2014 when he made a series of appointments even though the Senate was meeting in a pro forma session every three days. ![]() No votes, however, will occur until at least Sept. ![]() It had its genesis in bipartisan fears that Trump would fire (or perhaps move) Jeff Sessions from the Justice Department and replace him with an attorney general who would stay in place at least through 2018 without Senate approval and who would reward Trump by pliantly squashing the current investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.Ĭonsequently, the Senate has met in pro forma sessions on Aug. That maneuver effectively blocked President Donald Trump from being able to fill any vacant executive branch slots without his appointee being nominated and subjected to senatorial confirmation. ![]()
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