Minority Leading Senator Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Who will soon switch jobs, agreed at a meeting on Tuesday to adopt the division of labor agreement. 2001 power used by then Democratic leader Tom Daschle and Republican leader Trent Lott.
“Leader Schumer and Leader McConnell had a meaningful meeting and made progress on the issues of swift confirmation of President-elect Biden’s nominees and conducting a fair impeachment trial,” said a Schumer spokesman in a statement. “In an organizational resolution, leader Schumer expressed that the fairest, most reasonable and easiest way is to adopt the 2001 bipartisan agreement without external changes on either side.”
Schumer needs an unimpeded agreement with Republicans to quickly confirm Biden’s nominees for his office.
The last time the Senate was split 50-50, as it will be after Georgia’s elected Democratic senators take office on Wednesday, was in 2001. But at that time, the Republican Party won the “majority” when the vice president Dick Cheney was the equalizer. breaking vote.
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Sens. Lott, R-Miss., And Daschle, DS.D., shared power so that Lott was the leader to start the Congress. There was equal Republican-Democratic participation in the committees, with Republican presidents, and Daschle could call some bills for debate. Projects that receive tied votes in committees advance to the plenary.
Senators would have to unanimously agree to such an agreement.
Schumer and McConnell remain at an impasse over legislative obstruction. Currently, most legislation requires 60 votes to end the debate. “I believe we also need to address threats to legislative obstruction,” McConnell wrote in a letter to Republicans on Monday. “As you know, we all resisted President Trump’s direct calls to destroy the Senate by removing legislative obstruction when we controlled the House, the Senate and the White House.”
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“We have three things we need to do quickly – impeachment, appointment, Covid,” Schumer told reporters about his priorities on Tuesday, ahead of his meeting with McConnell.
McConnell said he expected the House to wait at least until Thursday to send the impeachment articles, so as not to overshadow the inauguration day. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats remained silent about when the House will send articles to the Senate. When she does, it could delay confirmation hearings for Biden’s nominees and her legislative agenda, which includes a $ 1.9 trillion Covid aid package at the forefront.
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The Senate opened hearings for Biden’s nominees on the Tuesday before the inauguration, but it is unclear whether any will be confirmed until the day of the inauguration, as it did for each of the last four presidents.