The Senate Republicans advance through Trump’s candidates while Democrats stall
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“(H) e can, on extraordinary occasions, summon the two houses, or one or the other, and in the event of disagreement between them, with regard to the time of adjournment, he can adjourn them at this time that he thinks appropriate.”
The US Senate puts itself through a number of candidates by President Trump: the choices for the federal bench, the assistant secretaries of the cabinet, the ambassadors.
The Republicans complain that the Democrats bleed the summer clock, trying to wedge the Senate to confirm many choices of the president.
The demonstrators took the camera delivering a coffin at the gateway to the GOP congress in simulation of funeral procession
The American Capitol in Washington on May 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We have seen an unprecedented level of obstruction and delay in blocking democrats. And consequently, we had to pass in a way.
Thune exploded the Democrats for having deployed “clock drainage tactics designed to block and obstruct, the president and his program”.
He noted that the Senate never failed to confirm the nominees of a setting on a fast lane. This includes “as a block” – where the Senate is quickly green, illustrates a band of nominees at the same time. By unanimous consent. This is where the majority checks the 100 senators on both sides and ensures that everyone agrees to advance a candidate or candidates on the ground. However, an objection can land the whole business. Then there is “vocal vote”. This is where all the senators in favor of Holler “Aye” and those who oppose themselves “no”. The candidate is confirmed if the “Ayes” are the noisiest.
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The Republicans complain that the Democrats bleed the summer clock, trying to wedge the Senate to confirm many choices of the president. (Reuters)
Each of these parliamentary methods is valid means of “voting” to the Senate. They are much faster than a lace call vote – which could slide 30 or 40 minutes. And if everyone agrees to do things quickly, it is not necessary to burn by parliamentary obstacles which sometimes consume days.
The most precious merchandise in the Senate is the time on the ground. And the rules of the Senate often promote the minority party to chew the minutes and hours to lengthen the process and confuse the majority.
The Senate Republicans were determined with rifle through the heart of Trump’s office and the main candidates in January, February and March. In fact, the Senate confirmed the major part of Mr. Trump’s main nominees before the brand established by former president Biden at the beginning of 2021. But the Democrats have slowed the GOP and the president on other candidates for months now. This is why Thune says that the Senate “will grind him here and the Democrats will be here, whether they want it or not”.
The Southern Dakota Republican added that it was “bad practice” in the name of Democrats. And that “what is happening” arises “in the Senate the next time the Democrats occupy the White House and the GOP is seated in the minority of the Senate.
The Senate Republicans discussed parliamentary options to make long -term changes to the rules and the previous ones to quickly confirm the candidates. GOP senators also discussed the possibility of “meeting on recreation” to install some of Trump’s choices – without confirmation from the Senate.
“He is sabotaged from the deep state of the interior,” said senator Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., On Fox Business. “I hate doing this to the Senate staff. But we have to start voting overnight. Just crush the clock, try to grind them.”
Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, during an audience of the Senate budget committee in Washington on March 12, 2024. (GRAEME SLOAN / BLOOMBERG via Getty Images)
But then Johnson offered this suggestion:
“We have to talk about taking a complete recess. Not having the pro formal session so that President Trump, if it owes it, can make play meetings,” proposed Johnson.
It is not the only one.
“No recess in August until the Senate erases the confirmation backlog, with 144 nominated now pending – more sessions more` `pro form ”, which allow the Senate to take a recreation ” without triggering the intelligence authority of President Trump,” said Senator Mike Lee, Rutah.
Representative Chip Roy, R-Texas also joined the chorus.
“The Senate has 3 choices. 1) fully recreated and allow Potus to name. 2) No recreation and do its job. 3) recently and do false sessions to prevent recreation meetings. Only 1 and 2 are acceptable,” said Roy on social networks.
The representative Chip Roy (R-TX) attends the address of President Donald Trump a joint session of the Congress at the American Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington. (Win McNamee / Getty images)
So, what is a “meeting at recess?” And what are these “pro form” and “false sessions” of which Lee and Roy speak?
In the 18th century, the founders did not want the hamstrings to a president in case the vacant posts in the cabinet or other administration stations opened during a “recreation” of the congress. The Senate must be in session to confirm the presidential candidates. And in the 18th century, Congress was often adjourned or in recess for months at the same time. The founders considered the appointments against avoidance as a “human resources coulis” – to temporarily fill a position in case the Senate has been released.
Here is how an appointment on recess: the room and the Senate must be adjourned for a period of 10 days. The Constitution requires that the Chamber and the Senate have the blessing of the other body to adjourn. And the two bodies must vote to adjourn it. Currently, the republican house must meet every three days – just gathering and gathering after a few seconds – to comply with the Constitution. There is therefore no way that the room can vote to adjourn. In addition, the house could probably not adopt an adjournment resolution anyway. The same with the Senate.
An appointment on recess, that legislators should technically invoice a “adjournment meeting”, is only valid if the two bodies are “adjourned” for more than 10 days.
Former President Obama tested if the congress was really in session for more than three days. He carried out some appointments against the Consumer Financial Protection Office and the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 during an abbreviated recreation from the Senate. But the 2014 Supreme Court ruled in NLRB c. Canning that the administration could not decide if the Senate was in session. Article I, section 5 of the Constitution gives the two bodies of the congress the right to “determine the rules of its procedure”. In short, the high court judged that if the Senate says that it is out of session, it is without session. Thus, these meetings at recess are not valid.
On Truth Social, Trump implored the Republicans of the Senate to cancel the recess in August and the long weekends to confirm the candidates “.
President Donald Trump listens to an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans’ access to their medical records in the East House Salle on July 30, 2025 in Washington. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)
The Senate can stay in session for a while now. But there is a certain potential resort for Trump.
A president never “postponed” the congress by himself. However, the Constitution presents this option to the President. Article II, section 3 of the Constitution, suggests as much:
“(He) can, on extraordinary occasions, summon the two houses, or one or the other, and in the event of disagreement between them, with regard to the time of adjournment, he can adjourn them at this time that he thinks appropriate.”
This is theoretical, but there is an argument that the president could claim that there is a “disagreement” between the Chamber and the Senate – and adjourn the two organizations. He was then able to wait 10 days, in the case of the NLRB, then set up his candidates via a playground.
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Admittedly, there are measures in the Senate which could allow the majority and the leaders of the minorities to bring the body back to session and to truncate the unprecedented decision of the president.
Thus, the recess of the Senate for August is not clear. If the Senate will confirm Trump’s candidates, he probably does it the old fashioned. As Thune said, senators will simply have to “endanger it”.
