Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), says that Senator Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) has placed a hold on all pending nominations now before the Senate. He says there are now “several dozen” nominations on the Senate calendar.
This is his response to the deal he cut in return for his consent to proceed on the ‘one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other programs.’
It’s actually the best thing that could happen to have Jim Bunning, who is so cantankerous that his colleagues forced him into retirement, making the case for scrapping the filibuster. I hope he keeps it up all year.
