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John Cornyn: “Basically what our Democratic colleagues are saying is we…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Cornyn: Senate Must Stay in Session or Change Rules to Break Democrats’ Log-Jam

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

And then Biden's nominees, roughly 57% of them, handled on an expedited basis. But what we've seen this term after this most recent election is without any precedent, as you can see here. Basically what our Democratic colleagues are saying is we will agree to no confirmation votes on Trump nominees during his second term. This is part of the, what I guess you'd call the resistance and the polarization of our politics and the fact that our Democrats are not the Democrats of old. (05:52–06:03)

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Asserts that Democrats have agreed to no confirmation votes on Trump nominees during his second term.

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