Reid Edges Closer To Nuclear Option As Lengthy All-Senator Meeting Ends With No Deal

[Stuart G]

Source: Talking Points Memo,

Sahil Kapur- July 15, 2013, 10:20 PM

A 3 1/2-hour long meeting of all senators ended Monday night without a resolution to the impasse over stalled presidential nominees, bringing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) one step closer to the nuclear option.

Reid said after the meeting in the Old Senate Chamber that there was no deal reached but that talks would continue. Don Stewart, a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), said “discussions will continue” because “a clear bipartisan majority in the meeting believed the Leaders ought to find a solution.”

Seven nominees are scheduled to come up for Senate votes Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. ET: three members of the National Labor Relations Board and picks to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency, Labor Department and Export-Import Bank. Reid has promised to change the rules by a simple majority vote if Republicans don’t let all of them through, and he’s confident he has the necessary 51 votes.

The crux of the dispute is over two NLRB nominees who were recess-appointed by President Obama (Sharon Block and Richard Griffin), and Richard Cordray to lead the CFPB. In a new development, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) said Cordray may have the votes to break a filibuster and be confirmed but that there was no agreement on the NLRB picks.


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I have said some unkind things about Harry Reid in past threads about him making a "deal." Perhaps this time, he will not make a deal.

[Botany]

1. Either they let the votes happen for Obama's picks or it is time to "nuke em."

Mitch McChinless is not to be trusted and his hatred for having a black man as
President colors all of his thoughts.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Mitt must be soiling his official Dave Vitter pampers in that photo.

He looks like he's had the mumps and his chin fell on him.

AND Harry Reid has caved in more times than all the AT Massey coal mines in America.

We don't need backroom DEALERS...we need transparent truthful legislators. People who would actually deserve the words "The Honorable" in front of their names.

"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," Does not the good democratic leader make!

I'll believe harry has the intestinal fortitude to lead when I see him act instead of just posturing for the cameras.

Dropkick Mitch the Corporate *!ch, Harry as a boy.

[wordpix]

10. aw, leave The Turtle alone, he's only doing what his Koch puppetmasters tell him to do

He's just a little cog in the wheel

[Android3.14]

2. Sure

And the catfish will whistle Dixie in the Mississippi.

[bowens43]

3. sure...right.... Harry will NEVER do this, deal or no deal

[Hubert Flottz]

6. I'm sorry but...

I couldn't agree more.

[SHRED]

4. Harry Reid...LOL

[City Lights]

7. "edges closer"

Timid Harry, I don't know whether to or

[onehandle]

8. When the GOP takes over in January 2015, that's the first thing they will do.

Might as well go nuclear now, Harry.

[watoos]

9. Why have meetings?

Just do it, already!

[wordpix]

11. Harry edges closer, mm by mm, and never quite gets to doing, only to talking

Just freaking DO it, Harry