So what to do about the Senate's Hawley problem

[Stinky The Clown]

Hawley blocks everything until Secretaries Austin and Blinken resign.

As Brian Schatz said so well, that is not a serious demand.

But the Senate's rules allow any Senator to put a hold on things.

So now what?

[sop]

1. Recess Appointments.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. +1

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[tritsofme]

5. The Republican minority is able to force pro-forma sessions and prevent recess appointments.

[sop]

8. When the minority forces pro-forma sessions to circumvent the required ten-day recess

and prevent a recess appointment, designate the individual an "acting" appointee. Trump did it all the time.

[tritsofme]

11. Not just anyone is eligible to become an acting official.

Trump got slapped down by the courts for this, and his illegal appointee’s actions were invalidated, as I recall.

[Septua]

3. What about the other 49?

And what about Mitch's comment being "focused 100% on stopping the Biden agenda?"

Maybe I'm missing your point but it's been uphill for Biden since before he was elected and I predict the grade of the uphill slope will only increase as November of this year approaches and even after the elections regardless which party has the majority in Congress.

Things might improve if some of 'em go to prison for seditious conspiracy...

[tikka]

6. Do what TFG did. Acting positions

[Samrob]

7. Acting positions and change the rules when possible. nt

[UTUSN]

9. Lots of rot in the "rules"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Hawley is a traitor/insurrectionist