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Floor Speech

Senate Republicans included a provision to address this very issue in an appropriations bill that Democrats blocked earlier this week.

This issue would have been addressed here on the U.S. Senate floor. Yet Senate Democrats came to the floor and objected to what was in this bill having appropriations and dealing with the funding of the Government of the United States.

And the shutdown Democrats, who want to shut down the government, did exactly that. They objected to the appropriations bill that addressed this very item. That is what happened. And what is really happening today, we are here on a Saturday morning in August, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and why are we here?

We are here because Democrats are still trying to distract from the unprecedented obstruction of President Trump's well-qualified nominees. As of this morning, there are still 154 qualified nominees awaiting confirmation in the U.S. Senate.

Many have been approved in committee with Democrat support, bipartisan support, in many cases, strong bipartisan support. These are not controversial individuals but patriotic Americans patiently waiting for their opportunity to serve our Nation.

So far this year, Democrats have allowed exactly zero--zero--nominees to be confirmed by voice vote. This is a drastic departure from the norms and the traditions of the U.S. Senate. It is very different from how Republicans treated Democrat nominees when we were in the minority in 2021. We continued to work with the other side to reach a fair agreement to end this blockade.

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