You actually had to change the rules. Where are we on the nominees? Right. Well, there's a batch of them that are moving through. We did have to change the rules because again, they dug in and fought on all of them and decided that they were going to filibuster every one of his nominees, even though every administration prior had had the majority of their noms put through by unanimous consent or voice vote. which is a way of expediting their consideration on the floor. And so we were dragging this out, spending enormous amount of time. (08:10–08:25)
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