Filibuster Deal: Cordray To Be Confirmed
After moving to the brink Senator Reid and Senator McConnell reached a deal:
- Richard Cordray, the long-filibustered, recess-appointed director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, will get a vote at 11 a.m. He won’t be filibustered.
- – The president will be allowed votes on nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — three Democrats, two Republicans. But he’ll have to give up on Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, the Democrats appointed during a 2012 recess,* and nominate two new people. “We’ve been calling on the White House for six months to send two new, legal, NLRB nominees,” said a Republican aide, simultaneously talking down the scope of the deal and reiterating the party’s objections.
The junking of Griffin and Block is the only real concession to Republicans; the tacit assumption here is that Obama’s new, warm bodies will get votes. By giving Democrats nearly everything they asked for, Republicans avoided a change to the filibuster.
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By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.