It's Monday, July 11 and Day 149 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell laid down his Supreme Court blockade: No meetings, no hearings, no votes on his replacement. It's also Day 112 since President Obama named Merrick Garland to be Scalia's replacement. What's the Senate doing today instead of considering the Supreme Court nominee?
Getting a late start at 4:00 ET (it is Monday, after all), then turning to a defense spending bill that the White House has threatened to veto because it pretty much ignores the Pentagon's recommendations, breaks the budget agreement from last year, and "risks the safety of our men and women fighting to keep America safe, undercuts stable planning and efficient use of taxpayer dollars, dispirits troops and their families, baffles our allies, and emboldens our enemies."
So that's a good use of the Senate's time while they try to figure out whether they'll do anything real about Zika prevention, gun violence, or filling a Supreme Court vacancy. Oh, and they're planning to leave by Friday for "August" recess.
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