Chamber, Senate is on the recess of August in the middle of the pressure on the Trump candidates

The Senate Republicans faced a recently choice: stay in session and confirm President Trump’s candidates more, or finally abandon Washington for recreation in August.

The senators have dragged – a little time – eliminating some of the president’s candidates for the administrative positions. But not all. It attracted the anger of certain conservatives, the Loyalists of Trump and President Donald Trump himself.

Trump was bubbling with the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., for having forced the Senate to execute long parliamentary traps and to incinerate a precious floor time to confirm even the non -controversial candidates. The president finally discharged on the Democrat of New York in a digital blow, telling him to “go to hell!”

It should be noted that Trump has not yet met Schumer or the chief of the Hakeem Jeffries House, Dn.y., during his second term. But then again, it’s a double -meaning street. And the Democrats remember several tumultuous meetings with Mr. Trump in the last time he was in office. He resulted in verbal sockets between the president and the former speaker of the Nancy Pelosi Chamber, D-Calif, and ended with the Democrats abandoning the meeting after only a few moments.

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Thus, it is far from certain that such a meeting would produce something productive at a distance.

But let’s go back to the “recess of August”.

First, it is important to establish that the members of the Chamber and the Senate are not in “summer vacation”. Of course, there are always breaks to visit with family and friends. Legislators are also people. But really, it’s not a “break”. The legislators are always “on”. Everything they do is not centered on Washington. Any member of the congress or senator who is worth his salt will tell you that spending time in his original states or districts is just as important – if not more – than what is happening on Capitol Hill. Meet with voters. Visiting companies. Driving meetings of the town hall. Stop at local coffee bars. Break the bread with guests. Discuss the local press corps.

Members also use this longer respite for political trips and investigation missions abroad. These “Codels” – Abbreviation of “Congress Delegation” – are an essential function for legislators to build bridges with foreign leaders and make their notes on the way the United States is approaching the rest of the globe. The president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La., And the former head of the majority of the room, Steny Hoyer, D-MD., Recently led travel groups in Israel. At least another major trip is reserved for later this month.

Thus, the “recess of August” is not intrinsically a “bad” thing. It is an essential element of work and probably one of the biggest names in American politics.

However, many Americans simply reject August as “holidays” for the members of the room and the senators, and it is a difficult optics for the congress.

Which brings us back to the tension between staying in session to do “something” and get home.

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It is clear that the Senate could have stayed in session to go more for the candidates of President Trump. Schumer and other Democrats were simply not going to yield and allow the Republicans to confirm a list of “in block” candidates. This is where the Greenlight Senate a large list of candidates at the same time and approves them either by unanimous consent or by vocal vote. The Senate confirms the candidates at the same time. The room could certainly have been in session to hammer some expenditure invoices before the deadline to finance the government by October 1.

But here is a harsh reality – especially for the Senate:

Legislators and staff desperately needed a break.

Period. Complete stop.

Since May, the Senate in particular has organized several night sessions, 24 hours a day and weekend. Not just a few. The Senate voted deeply in the night or night on the great and beautiful bill. Then the Senate was back for late evening sessions confirming the candidates.

Yes. It is people’s trade. But the ground staff and the support teams were exhausted. Senate leaders were aware of this. And it is to say nothing about the legislators themselves.

It’s anecdotal, but legislators probably needed a break from each other too. This makes them happier – and probably more productive when they return to Washington.

But that still does not solve the political dilemma with which the Republican senators face with a substantial nucleus of their party demanding that they remain moored in Washington to crush the candidates.

And this can also satisfy President Trump.

There are now a lot of discussions in the Senate on the “change of rules” to accelerate the confirmation of the candidates.

One thing is certain: the Senate will not change the “rules” to speed up the confirmation process. The Senate has 44 permanent rules. It takes 67 votes to break an obstacle on a real change of rules. But what the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., could do, is back to the Senate in a special parliamentary posture where he can initiate a new “previous” to confirm different types of candidates. It is a maneuver that the deceased head of the majority of the Senate, Harry Reid, D-NEV., Executed to confirm some of the nominees for President Obama. The same thing with the former head of the majority of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., To confirm the candidates of the Supreme Court.

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The “new precedents” in the Senate require complicated parliamentary quarrels. But only a simple majority is necessary to properly do this gambit for candidates. So, it’s easier and much more plausible than “changing rules”.

For the secular person, a new “previous” does not seem important. But there is a reason why the Senate has only 44 permanent rules and a large book of previous. You can do a lot in the Senate if you are able to concoct a new previous one.

And note that it is not only the Republicans who want to change the way the Senate does things for nominees of lower and not controversial level. Some Senate Democrats have also expressed their interest in changes.

President Donald Trump and the leader of the Senate minorities, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., have strongly on the confirmation of a number of Trump candidates in various administration. (Getty Images)

There are only so many minutes and as many hours. Time is just as precious for Democrats as for Republicans.

Everyone in Capitol Hill knows that longer nights and night sessions are waiting for legislators in September and the fall while the Senate is trying to confirm additional candidates.

This does not mean anything to avoid a government closure in October.

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This is why the Senate republicans have chosen to stay a little recently – then call it one day. Or a month.

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