Republicans lost the House and the Senate on November 3. The new Congress is sworn in on January 3, which leaves 53 days. Government funding runs out December 11. Senate Republicans voted to stay in town and work through the holiday week, and Leader John Thune has moved to end debate on three judicial nominees, one of them for the federal court in northern Alabama.
Guest host Robert McNeily, in for Jenny Beth Martin, asks Jared Hudson what Republicans can realistically finish. Hudson, a former Navy SEAL sniper who ran for the United States Senate in Alabama this year, gives the answer of a man who has watched Congress for 22 years: if he were betting, he would bet on nothing. But if they did what their voters sent them to do, he says, they might start earning those voters back.
Then the part that outlasts the calendar. A judge confirmed in the next seven weeks serves for life. Senator Rick Scott says confirming every pending nominee would take just over 200 hours of floor time. Hudson says to spend every hour of it, and explains why the Senate that takes over in January will not waste a minute of its own.
In this clip:
• The lame-duck calendar: 53 days, a December 11 deadline, three judges
• Hudson's bet on what Congress gets done
• Judges confirmed now serve for life
• "A time-sensitive target"
Call 202-224-3121 and tell your senators to confirm every pending judge before January 3. Watch the full episode at jennybethshow.com and learn more at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — 53 days left in the majority
00:42 — Hudson's bet: what Congress gets done
01:50 — Judges confirmed now serve for life
02:26 — "Every dang bit of it"
03:10 — What happens after January 3
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