Democrats ‘Fractured’ Over Cabinet Obstruction

Today on the Senate floor, I discussed the Senate Democrats’ obstruction of the President’s Cabinet nominations. 

For the last several weeks, we have been doing all we can to take up and consider the President's nominations for his Cabinet, even though we've had little or no cooperation from the other side of the aisle.

By carrying out this unprecedented obstruction of qualified nominees, our friends across the aisle are simply precluding the Senate from considering other actual legislation that would actually be helpful to the American people.

Our friends continue to listen to, and sadly, to cater to radical elements of their own party who simply haven't gotten over the election and have decided to obstruct the President and his agenda at all costs.

They're fractured.

People don't like that across the country. They think we're sent here to solve problems and to work together to make progress on behalf of the American people.

I realize the Minority Leader, the Democratic Leader, probably has the toughest job in Washington, D.C.: to try to keep the far-left fringes of his party happy while trying to do the work of the American people who sent us here to legislate.

My hope is that they'll decide to course-correct and determine for the good of the entire country that the right thing to do is to move forward on these nominees.