When Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., placed holds on Joe Biden’s Pentagon nominees to protest the agency’s radical abortion policy two years ago, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, was one of the loudest voices condemning his GOP colleague. But now that his party has lost the reins of control in Washington, Schatz has completely changed his tune on the Senate procedure.
Over the past several weeks, Hawaii’s senior senator has been slow-walking the approval of individuals nominated by President Trump to serve in his administration. Rather than allow these nominations to be advanced by Senate committees via unanimous consent, the senator’s actions effectively force them to consider each nomination one at a time.
According to the left-wing rag Axios, Schatz is doing this to “protest” what he
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