Opinion: An accomplished Trump appointee waited 388 days for a unanimous ‘yes’ confirmation vote. It’s time to change the Senate’s rules, writes KimStrassel.
Something remarkable happened to John Ryder on Thursday. He got a vote in the Senate.
Getting confirmed by the Senate for a part-time board position on the Tennessee Valley Authority—a minor corporate agency based in Knoxville that only holds four public sessions a year—didn’t use to be remarkable. It should have been even less so for Mr. Ryder, an accomplished Memphis lawyer whose nomination was uncontroversial. Yet Mr. Ryder waited 388 days for a vote—some 100 days longer than it takes a new human being to come into the...Michael Cohen’s testimony proved again that Mr.
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