In these waning days of the Democratic Senate, the majority is taking advantage of a muffed procedural maneuver by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to confirm a passel of otherwise stalled executive branch appointees.
Reid then proceeded to read through a list of stalled executive branch nominees and, just to make the point that Republicans have no intention of letting them advance, he objected to all of them himself.
WASHINGTON -- For about 10 minutes next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear from several million undocumented immigrants, all of them potential beneficiaries under President Barack Obama's stalled executive actions on immigration.
The Republicans failed to pass a comprehensive reform bill, certain Democrats helped defeat the Dream Act in 2010, and now we find ourselves in 2015 with stalled executive policies and a countdown clock until the Department of Homeland Security runs out of funding -- resulting in another shutdown prompted by an impossible choice created by the GOP.
But the idea stalled, advertising executives say, because of disagreements over how the program should be run.
When thousands of car owners complained in the 1980's and 1990's that their Fords unexpectedly stalled, top executives repeatedly assured regulators that there was no way to know what might be causing the problem.
Gibson was dropped by his agents; his long-gestating film projects were stalled; and executives wondered if he could ever bounce back.
Obama took questions about his stalled immigration executive actions at a town hall-style event at Florida International University, which claims to be first in the nation in awarding degrees to Hispanic students.
The move by Republicans served to increase the prospect that the White House would use a recess next week to place stalled nominees in executive branch jobs.
"While the overall number of cases has dropped, progress has now stalled," Vickie Hawkins, the executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières UK, told The Independent.
