hearing and the committee votes on the nominee to get out of that committee. traditionally they confirm senate nominees once out of committee. it is there to respect the will of the american people and the election for administration to fill out its roles under a new president. instead, what senator schumer has done is to require closure votes to essentially slow down the process and to ab instruct. at this point in the last four administrations combined, last four administrations, the senate conducted 17 cloture votes combined. 17 cloture votes in the last four administrations combined at this point. today, the senate has had 79
nominees. let me give you one more example of the comparison historically. in the first entire term of the george h.w. bush administration, his entire four years, he faced one cloture vote. in the entire four years of the clinton administration, he faced ten cloture votes. under the george w. bush administration, the entire first term he faced four cloture votes. barack obama faced 17 in his first entire four years. we have faced 79 in our first 14 months. that adds up to 32 combined in the entire first four years of those administrations relative to 79 in our first less than year and a half. pat pazella we re listening to marc short. we re really awawaiting to see
17 versus 79 in the first four months of our administration. that s five times the last four administrations combined. senator schumer is essentially weaponizing a senate procedure and demanding cloture votes that he eventually supports. 11 of the president s nominees have been approved without a single dissenting vote. still forced to go through a 30-hour of debate to slow down the senate calendar simply for the purpose of obstruction. even senate democrats have begun to call this out. to say it s getting to the point of ridiculous. at this rate, the united states senate would take 11 1/2 years to confirm our nominees. 11 1/2 years to confirm our nominees. so let me give you one more example of the comparison historically.
in the first entire term of the george h.w. bush administration, he faced one cloture votes. in the entire four years of the clinton administration, he faced ten cloture votes. barack obama faced 17 in his first entire four years. we have faced 79 in our first 14 months. that adds up to 32 combined in the entire first four years of those administrations relative to 79 in our first less than 1 1/2 years. so let me give a couple more illustrations of specific individuals. pat fazella is our nominee to be the deputy secretary to the department of labor. we still don t have a number 2 person at the department of
to the senate floor for full confirmation. traditionally the senate routinely confirms the administration s nominee once out of committee. it s there to respect the will of the american people for the administration to fill out its roles under a new president. instead, what senator schumer has done is to require votes to essentially slow down to process and to obstruct. at this point in the past four administrations combined, the last four administrations, the senate has conducted 17 cloture votes combined. that in essence being a filibuster on a nominee. 17 cloture votes combined. today the senate has had 79 cloture votes in the first year.