No, you have it wrong. I'm not talking about opposition or balance of powers or any of the normal good negotiations that have always gone on in our government. I'm talking about crude obstruction at a level that has never been seen before in the United States. They are forcing 30 hours of debate for each nomination before even voting on them. There are hundreds of nominations held up by this abuse.
Congress is in session about 1500 hours per year, this is a big variable so that is an approximate number. So for just a fraction of the nominations, say100 nominations, that means 3000 hours of debate demanded by dumocraps. That is about two years of session time wasted. So they are willing to obstruct the United States Government from working just to be complete *******s. This abuse is hurting our country and is despicable and should be criminal. You don't hear about this from the biased media.
"In addition to blocking the President’s nominees, Senator Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are using the nomination process as a weapon to impede other Senate business. Democrats are forcing cloture votes—which require 30 hours of debate time on the Senate floor—at an unprecedented rate. They have forced more cloture votes on the President’s nominees in just his first year in office than for the first terms of the last of the last four presidents combined. The Senate confirmed hundreds more of President Obama’s and President Clinton’s nominees than President Trump’s."
"Even non-controversial nominees who are unanimously or overwhelmingly supported have been subject to 30 hours of debate because of this cynical stall tactic. Jerome Powell, nominee to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve, was ultimately confirmed by a vote of 84-13 following a forced cloture vote. Four recent nominees for district judgeships originally subject to cloture were later confirmed by the Senate unanimously."
"This is a deliberate tactic to slow down the work of Congress and stall the business of the American people."
Remember this the next time you hear someone whining about Trump not having a ambassador to say... South Korea.