Senate Republicans Continue Harry Reid's
Nominee Blockade
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 7/27/2025 1:56:22 PM
Harry Reid, the former Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate, left the Senate in 2017 and died in 2021, but his ghost must still be haunting the chamber. How else can one explain why the Republican majority is continuing the blockade Reid initiated back in 2007 to prevent a Republican President (George W. Bush) from using recess appointments to get around the various roadblocks Reid put in place to delay confirming Bush's nominees?
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Disbar Judge Talwani
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Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics
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This show must not go on.
It’s time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let’s turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them.
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This event is now too dangerous for California.
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Majority Leader Thune owes us an explanation.