., Democrats are needlessly dragging out debates, stalling Trump nominees, creating backlog, and preventing the president from assembling his administrative team.. McConnell made the move to shorten debate time after Senate voted to proceed with the nomination of Jeffrey Kessler to serve..…

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At the request of Senator Richard Lugar, the most prominent Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Carl Meacham, director of Latin America on the Senator’s political team, met with staff from the State Department, senior foreign diplomats and industry representatives over..…