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A rocky start for the transfer of power—in the Senate “It’s not the end of the world in the short term if it doesn’t pass,” said James Wallner, a resident senior fellow for governance at the center-right R Street Institute, of prospects for an organizing resolution. “But if you want a Senate that’s going to be productive and kind of get into the regular flow of business, it does need to have committee members who are interested in being committee members and holding hearings, and the organizing resolution certainly helps facilitate that.” Endnotes

McConnell also lacks special powers when it comes to ending debate on presidential nominations. Senators could filibuster presidential nominations before 2013 and 2017, when Democrats and Republicans, respectively, used the nuclear option to circumvent the Senate’s rules permitting unlimited debate unless three-fifths of senators duly chosen and sworn, typically 60, vote to invoke cloture or to end debate on a nominee. Consequently, 51 senators can now schedule a final confirmation vote on Biden’s Cabinet picks over their colleagues’ objections. If McConnell tries to veto the president�...

By the time the sun sets on Joe Biden’s first half-day as president, he will have signed nearly twenty orders, memoranda, and other documents to begin combatting what he and his advisers describe as “a quartet of crises” after four years of Trump.

The new power of Blumenthal and Murphy in a 50-50 Senate FacebookTwitterEmail U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy speaks during an interview following a meeting at a Southwest Community Health Center facility in Bridgeport, Conn. Oct. 13, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media WASHINGTON — Soon after the presidential inauguration on Wednesday, U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy will step into a Senate majority for the first time since 2015. And it will mark the first time Democrats have held the White House and both chambers of Congress in a decade. The shift will happen after Georgia ce...

How Schumer will share power in a 50-50 Senate FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer works on a speech in his office on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Schumer is poised to become New York's first Senate majority leader. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)ERIN SCHAFF/New York TimesShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) participates in his Senate Confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill January 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Mark Wilson/...