WASHINGTON ― Republicans have stalled dozens of President Joe Biden’s nominees from being confirmed across several departments, including those in charge of putting criminals behind bars, supporting small businesses and maintaining national security.
The dilatory procedural tactics have frustrated Democrats and given proponents of institutional reform even more ammo in the case for why the rules need to be changed.
“We have to change something. It’s another way for Republicans to shut down the Senate,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), an advocate of eliminating the…
