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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing hard to eliminate the filibuster for executive nominations, on the grounds that Republicans have stood in the way too many times and are refusing to confirm qualified nominees. What’s so striking about this reason is that it’s false. President Obama’s success rate with nominees is actually higher than that of his Republican predecessor. Eighty-six percent of Obama’s civilian nominees — including both judicial- and executive-branch appointees — were confirmed in the 112th Congress. In the 111th Congress, his success rate was 82 percent.

The CDC’s vaccine advisers meet next week to deliberate on recommending Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster shots.

A regulation czar will shape Biden’s climate and environmental agenda, should Republicans win the House. The post remains unfilled, though the president’s getting closer.

Environmental law expert Richard Revesz is being considered to lead the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, according to two people familiar with

WASHINGTON (PAI)—In yet another indication of the importance of unions to workers, a top labor law expert reports the same states with high union density, high wages, and paid family and medical leave are the states that protect the right to abortion—even after the Supreme Court declared that un...