Within hours of Scalia's death, Senator McConnell promised to block all consideration of a possible President Obama appointment to the court.
Senate Republicans said Wednesday that they would block consideration of any other issue until the Senate extended the Bush-era tax cuts that expire at the end of the month and financed continuing government operations.
The legislation would block or delay all of those efforts.
Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today that he would help block consideration of the Bork nomination until Republican Senators agree to act on the Defense Authorization bill, an aide to the Senator said tonight.
Just this week, two Trump nominees withdrew themselves from consideration because Senator Grassley indicated he would block their approval.
If he remained chairman of the committee in the next Congress, as he presumably would if the Democrats re tained control of the House, Mr. Mills would be expected to delay or block consideration of a value‐added tax, even if the Administration recommend ed it.
But Senator McConnell's use of the filibuster -- to block consideration of all manner of legislation -- is a cynical distortion of a long-established Senate procedure.
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The Senate voted Monday to block consideration of a measure that would punish any doctor who fails to provide medical care to a child born alive after an attempted abortion.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, announced Monday that he would join at least 13 other Republicans who have vowed to block consideration of gun legislation passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and assembled by the Democratic leadership.
For nearly all of 2016, McConnell blocked the consideration of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, insisting the next president should fill the vacancy.
