Democrats Plan End-of-Year Push on Nominees After Loss
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Democrats are planning a year-end drive to confirm as many of President Barack Obama’s nominees as possible before turning over control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans in January.
Republicans captured a Senate majority in yesterday’s election, leaving Democratic leader Harry Reid with about a month in the year-end session to confirm Obama’s choices for the federal bench and to fill executive-branch posts for the final two years of his presidency. Those positions can be approved with a simple majority.