Eight months into the new administration, we still have a logjam of President Trump's nominees awaiting confirmation, so the Senate finally stepped up and said "enough is enough."
Scores of appointees have languished for months, and after repeated cries from constituents, GOP senators finally decided to take action.
More details from The Hill:
After weeks of warnings, Republicans late last week pulled the trigger on the 'nuclear option,' allowing lawmakers to confirm lower-level nominees en bloc. That led to Thursday, when the Senate voted 51-47 to cement 48 nominees into place.
'Republicans have fixed a broken process and restored the Senate precedent that applied to previous presidents — and that is allowing … a majority of a president's nominees to be confirmed expeditiously,' Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on the floor.
Some of the 48 nominees confirmed on Thursday included a half-dozen ambassadorships, such as Kimberly Guilfoyle for Greece and Callista Gingrich for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Thune also said that this was just the first batch.
'Today is the first slate of nominees. There will be more to come,' he said. 'And we'll ensure that President Trump's administration is filled at a pace that looks more like those of his predecessors.'
Great job. And it only took eight months!
We'll wait and see if the GOP can get the rest through before Trump's been in office for a year.
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