WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the following announcement Tuesday about the Senate’s August recess:
“Once the Senate completes its work on health care reform, we will turn to other important issues including the National Defense Authorization Act and the backlog of critical nominations that have been mindlessly stalled by Democrats.
“In order to provide more time to complete action on important legislative items and process nominees that have been stalled by a lack of cooperation from our friends across the aisle, the Senate will delay the start of the August recess until the third week of August.”