spring wife's
so the nuclear option in the senate
has been averted for the time being
as you know the republicans have been incredibly obstructionist when it comes
to
not I am confirming the president's nominees to head the
various agencies judges they've also filibustered a lot of
legislation as well but the the confirmation love
Obama nominees i has really been
extraordinary are they have used this republicans
is not just as a means to reject nominees that in one but to no avail
file legislation that is already passed they wanted to defang
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau they want to
diminish the number I love people sitting on the
Washington the DC Court of Appeals
they want to a regulate
the EPA's regulatory authority on and on and on
well the deal struck this morning apparently between
the John McCain and Harry Reid as Mitch McConnell sheds tear
basically says
that the republicans must not filibuster
five existing nominees that would basically be right I
Rob Corddry who past a
cloture this morning so in other words there will be no filibuster Rob Corddry
in that he will pass with at least fifty one votes in the Senate
to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau more importantly
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue to have its funding
independent of congress
so the congress cannot punish it for doing its job in addition
the other
people on that aboard which will be approved
and let me see if I can find my
document here now where is that
it the other people here who will be approved
will be
son-of-a-gun I lost my document here it is
I you've got Corddry
will be approved you will see I McCarthy who is up for the head of the EPA
approved
Peretz who will be the I am
a the what is it the labor secretary will be approved
you also see the ahead
I love the
from Fred Hochberg the export-import Bank approved
the National Labor Relations Board Chairman mark gassed in Pierce
will be approved the to other nominees
who've been sitting on the National Labor Relations Board Richard Griffin in
Sharon block
whose appointment recess appointments were considered invalid
by that same Washington Court of Appeals will have to be
two new names will have to be offered this could be a plus
you may see people who are even more labor-friendly so seven nominees
in writing promised not to be filibustered
and
then the nuclear option stays on the table and we go from there
we see how other Republicans behaved so this is a win
I for the the democrats
and frankly the functioning of our government and
the empowerment up the EPA and I want these gates were gonna talk to our josh
Fox some gas line and see how poorly
the EPA did on this fracking issue I am
around the time of the election but also an empowerment at the National Labor
Relations Board this is
that's a big deal