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Under This Administration, Senate Democrats Have Forced Cloture Votes For The First Time Ever On 42 Different Executive Branch Positions
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “[This] is comprehensive, across-the-board heel-dragging like nothing this body has seen before…. In other words, systematic obstruction. Not targeted, thoughtful opposition to a few marquee nominations or rare circumstances. But a grinding, across-the-board effort to delay and obstruct the people this president puts up. Even if they have unquestionable qualifications. Even if the job is relatively low-profile.” (Sen. McConnell, Remarks, 4/02/2019)
Democrats Have Forced The Senate To Spend Time On Cloture Votes For The First Time Ever On…
Five Cabinet Secretaries and the Directors of National Intelligence and the Office of Management and Budget …
Secretary of State
Secretary of Education
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Energy
Director of National Intelligence
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Six Deputy Secretaries of Cabinet Agencies and the deputies at EPA and OMB …
Deputy Secretary of Defense1
Deputy Secretary of Transportation
Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
Deputy Secretary of Labor
Deputy Secretary of Commerce
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury1
Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget
The chiefs of key agencies like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Customs and Border Protection, the National Counterterrorism Center, and NASA …
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Comptroller of the Currency
Solicitor General1
NASA Administrator
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Labor Department
Director, National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the DNI
The US Trade Representative and other ambassadors …
United States Trade Representative1
Ambassador to Israel
Ambassador to China
Ambassador to Japan
Ambassador to the Vatican
Ambassador to Luxembourg
Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom
Seven lower-level posts in Cabinet Agencies …
Associate Attorney General
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, Treasury Department
Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Treasury Department
Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health1
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Family Support
Members of the FCC and SEC …
Member, Federal Communications Commission
Member, Securities and Exchange Commission
… and even on general counsels to Cabinet Agencies and the IRS.
General Counsel, Department of Defense
General Counsel, Department of Transportation
General Counsel, Department of Agriculture
Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service & Assistant General Counsel, Department of the Treasury
Note:
1. These positions have had cloture motions filed on them before, but those motions fell or were withdrawn or vitiated and it was not until the current administration that they required votes to invoke cloture.(“Cloture Attempts on Nominations: Data and Historical Development Through November 20, 2013,” Congressional Research Service, 9/28/2018; “Nominations with Cloture Motions, 113th (2013-2014); 114th (2015-2016); 115th (2017-2018); and 116th Congress as of 03/19/19,” Congressional Research Service, 3/19/2019; “Cloture Motions - 115th Congress,” U.S. Senate Website, Accessed 4/02/2019; “Cloture Motions - 116th Congress,” U.S. Senate Website, Accessed 4/02/2019; Congress.gov)
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