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Senate failure to do its job enters third week

The Senate’s continued failure to do its job and hold a hearing on the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court now goes into its third week. Its recalcitrance fits the tenor of the Age of Trump: someone else started it.

Senator Ed Markey provided a civics and public policy lesson on the significance of the Senate this past week by putting a “hold” on the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to head the Food and Drug Administration
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