Senate Hasn’t Had Full Attendance In 7 Months, Hurting Dems Plan To Get More Judicial Nominees Through
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The Senate has major issues with attendance.
They haven’t had full attendance in the Senate in 7 months.
Senators Mitch McConnell, John Fetterman, and Dianne Feinstein have all missed extended periods of time.
This has halted the plans of Democrats to push through more judicial nominees and legislation.
The Washington Examiner reported:
The Senate has had attendance problems in the last seven months, with at least one senator missing from the roll call in every vote since August 2022.
The 51-49 Democratic-held Senate has been reduced to a 49-48 Senate thanks to absences by both parties, with that number fluctuating from day to day, causing roadblocks in the upper chamber of Congress.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have no timetable for when they plan to return to the Senate. McConnell, 81, is recovering from a concussion suffered during a fall. Fetterman, 53, is receiving treatment for depression, and Feinstein, 89, is receiving treatment for shingles.
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Democrats hoped the 51-49 majority they won in the 2022 midterm elections would allow for more judicial nominees and legislation to get passed after two years of a 50-50 Senate, but long-term absences have halted those plans.
Fetterman has been hospitalized since February 15th.
A lot has happened in the 33 days since Pennsylvania’s junior senator John Fetterman last stepped foot in the Senate chamber.
His colleagues have cast nearly four dozen votes since the stroke-surviving freshman Democrat checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center seeking treatment for clinical depression.
Most of those roll calls were on procedural motions or judicial nominations. But there have also been substantive moves such as rejecting a Labor Department rule on socially conscious investing — a rebuke which prompted Joe Biden’s first presidential veto — and clearing the way for repeal of a decades-old congressional authorization for use of military force against Iraq.
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While both of their offices have had decades to fine-tune their operations should the boss need to take a day, Fetterman’s budding staff has had to hit the ground running without missing a step.
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