actually go about slowing down senate business? well boris, democratic senators are threatening to essentially grind senate business to a halt unless they get what theyvetting of the new of the health care reform bill and they want to make it hard for republicans to schedule votes on bills considered noncontroversial. that could keep nominees from the trump administration getting confirmed and confirm a glacial pace of work in the senate in a body notoriously already slow. among the techniques, preventing committees from conducting routine business, even stopping committees from having extended hearings when the senate is in session. the goal would be to force republicans to open debate on the health care bill which at this point is done behind closed doors. all democrats and some republicans have yet to see what is in the new bill despite republican leadership promised a vote before the july 4th