So far paperwork, not senators, is holding up some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Republicans want as many nominees confirmed as quickly as possible when Trump takes office next week.
However, nomination hearings for the proposed secretaries of Veterans Affairs, Interior, and Homeland Security all faced punts this week. Committee leaders blamed the delays on the need to finish FBI background checks or get disclosures from the Office of Government Ethics. The full paperwork for those reviews had yet to be sent to the committees holding the hearings in time for the original hearing dates.
Democrats have used the ...