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0 in its history a full-time con confirmed director, richard c d cordray. on wednesday, fred hockberg and on thursday mccarthy overcame filibuster and confirmed as new director of the environmental protection agency. for months, years in some cases, president obama has been pleading with senate republicans to let him put his own executive branch team in place. the republicans have just thumbed their noses at him. that changed this week. and the reason is simple. democrats decided they had enough of the obstruction and told republicans they were ready to use a simple majority vote to change the rules. to stop subjecting nominees for executive branch positions to filibusters, the so-called nuclear option. republicans, enough of them anyway, decided the threat was real and so they cut a deal. they would relent and allow votes on four nominees who went through this week and for three more nominees for national labor relations board, two this month or one next year. that amounted to promise

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