An East Coast snowstorm scurries the Senate week earlier this week.
One last vote to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas
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The East Coast is currently surrounded by a blizzard, with snow that could possibly lie until Tuesday.
While Washington DC received only a few inches of snow on Sunday, parts of the northeast are expected to receive more than a foot of snow, according to The Washington Post. The National Weather Service predicts New York City could rise to 22 inches on Tuesday morning.
The Senate held an initial vote for Mayorkas on Thursday, defeating a GOP filibuster. But the Senate on Monday reached an agreement to hold its final confirmation vote so that senators could travel to their home countries over the weekend.
The delay comes amid the formation of a hectic week in Washington as Democrats prepare to pave the way for coronavirus legislation.
The House will vote on a budget resolution this week, the first step in circumventing the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster by using reconciliation.
Senate Democrats also hope to pass the budget resolution this week, although it was already an aggressive timeline before the snow delay.
The approval of a budget in the Senate includes holding a vote-a-rama, a marathon session where any senator wishing to cast a vote can do so.
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But he warned that Democrats would follow suit if they failed to buy in ten Senate Republicans for a deal very similar to Biden’s $ 1.9 billion proposal.
‘We prefer to make this important work twofold – to include input, ideas and reviews from our Republican colleagues or twofold attempts to do the same. But if our Republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent and necessary legislation, we will have to continue without it, ‘Schumer said late last week on the Senate floor.