House, Senate went to court in August under pressure from Trump candidate

Senate Republicans face the option recently: keep going and confirm more President Trump’s nominees, or eventually abandon Washington’s adjournment for a conceited August.

The Senators hang out for a while – eliminating some of the president’s executive position nominees. But not all. This has caused anger among some conservatives, Trump loyalists and Donald Trump himself.

Trump finally dismissed New York Democrats in the digital coup and told him “go to hell!”

It is worth noting that Trump has not met with Schumer of DN.Y. or House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in his second term. But then again, this is a two-way street. Democrats remember the last multiple turbulent meetings with Mr. Trump. This eventually reached a verbal struggle between the president and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, and gave up the meeting after a moment as a Democrat.

Trump told Schumer

So it’s far from certain that any such meeting will produce anything productive.

But back to “August break”.

First, it is important to make sure that members of the House and Senate are not on the “summer vacation.” Of course, there are always some breaks to visit with family and friends. Legislators are also humans. But indeed, this is not a “rest”. Legislators always “continue”. Not everything they do is centered around Washington. Any member of Congress or senator worthy of salt will tell you that the time to return time to their state or region is as important (or even more) as it is on Capitol Hill. Meet the voters. Visit the business. Hold a town hall meeting. Stop at the local coffee bar. Broken bread at the diners. Chat the local press.

Members also use this longer breathing time to go abroad for political travel and fact-finding tasks. These “codes” of “congressional delegations” are a key function of legislators building bridges with foreign leaders and how the United States approaches other parts of the world. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. and former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. Recently led a group’s trip to Israel. Later this month, at least one major trip was made.

Therefore, “August break” is not an essentially “bad” thing. This is an important part of the work and is probably one of the biggest misnames in American politics.

Still, many Americans simply view August as a “holiday” for House members and Senators, which is a challenging sight for Congress.

This brings us back to the tension between doing “something” in a meeting and returning home.

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It was obvious that the Senate could have stayed in the meeting to farm more of President Trump’s nominees. Schumer and other Democrats simply won’t surrender, but instead allow Republicans to confirm candidates for the “group.” This is where the Senate Green Light immediately gets a large number of nominees and approves them by unanimous agreement or by voice vote. The Senate immediately confirmed the nominee. The House can certainly continue to make some spending bills before October 1 to fund the government.

But it’s a stark reality – especially for the Senate:

Members and staff urgently need rest.

period. Stop all.

Since May, the Senate has especially held multiple circular and weekend meetings overnight. More than just a few. The Senate goes deep into the night or votes on the big and beautiful Bill. Then the Senate returned to the late night meeting to confirm the nominee.

Yes. This is the people’s business. But the floor staff and support team are exhausted. Senate leaders noticed this. This is what the legislator himself says.

This is anecdote, but lawmakers may also need rest for each other. This makes them happier—when they return to Washington, they may be more productive.

But that still doesn’t solve the political dilemma facing Republican senators, whose party’s core demands that they berth in Washington to grind nominees.

And it may not satisfy President Trump, either.

There are a lot of Senate talking about “changing the rules” to speed up the confirmation of nominees.

To be sure: The Senate will not change the “rules” to speed up the confirmation process. The Senate has 44 regular rules. Breaking the fiter vote on actual rule changes requires 67 votes. But what Senate Majority Leader John Thune can do is to restore the Senate to a special parliamentary posture where he can launch new “precedents” to confirm different types of nominees. It was a maneuver by late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to confirm some of the nominees for former President Obama. Same as former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to confirm the Supreme Court’s nominee.

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The Senate’s “new precedent” requires some complicated parliamentary quarrels. But only a simple majority can do this kind of kindness for the nominee. So, this is easier and more reasonable than “changing the rules”.

For laymen, the new “precedent” doesn’t sound important. But there is a reason why the Senate has only 44 regular rules and a huge precedent book. If you can consolidate new precedents, you can achieve a lot in the Senate.

And note that it’s not just the way Republicans want to change the way the Senate does for some lower-level, uncontroversial nominees. Some Senate Democrats have also expressed interest in change.

There are only so many minutes and so many hours. Time is as valuable to Democrats as Republicans.

Everyone on Capitol Hill knows that as the Senate tries to confirm other nominees, more long nights and night meetings await lawmakers and fall.

This is what avoids the shutdown of governments in October.

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That’s why Senate Republicans chose to stay around lately – and then call it a day. Or a month.

After all, there is only too much time available in August.