WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after voting to reform the nominations process in the U.S. Senate:
“Over the last two years, the Senate has filed cloture on 148 nominees and conducted cloture votes on 128 of them. At this pace, if cloture is required on each nomination, it could take more than five years to confirm all of President Trump’s remaining nominees. The system has to change. I voted for these commonsense reforms to modernize the nominations process and to ensure arcane procedural tactics cannot be weaponized to enforce such unprecedented obstruction against the current President and any future president.”
Senator Cramer has issued several statements calling for nominations reform in the Senate and recently released a video advocating for these reforms.
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