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Justice Department lawyers had urged the Supreme Court, if it wouldn’t immediately allow the government to implement the executive order, to consider an appeal on an expedited schedule.
The schedule change follows Comey’s blockbuster testimony before the Intelligence Committee last week.
They are pushing for federal decriminalization of marijuana and for Congress to remove marijuana from a Schedule I classification under the Controlled Substances Act.
The decision by Democrats to slow Trump's executive-branch nominees will bring long hours over the coming weeks, but it will also bring an unusual degree of certainty to the schedule.
By Lindsey McPherson and Niels Lesniewski [jwp-video n=”1″] Roll Call reporters Lindsey McPherson and Niels Lesniewski lay out what’s on the schedule in the House and Senate this
Senate Republican leaders scrambled the floor schedule Wednesday to shore up the shaky nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Education secretary, after two of their colleagues said they could not support her
It “went smoothly and she will return to a full schedule very soon,” the release said.
Trains will operate on a Saturday schedule, which is every 12 minutes, with no track work scheduled, WMATA announced on Tuesday.
“This hearing delay is simply to accommodate the Senate schedule.”
“Despite the challenges current circumstances present, OGE’s staff and agency ethics officials have been working diligently in an effort to deliver expedited reviews that meet the Senate’s schedule.”
Grassley reiterated his intention in a letter earlier this month to keep the Sessions’ hearings on schedule.
Combined with vocal opposition to Sessions’s nomination from progressive advocacy groups, the sparring over the schedule foreshadowed a contentious confirmation hearing in January for the former