Senate Rule Change to Speed Up Confirmations: BGOV Tax

Senate Moves to Speed Up Confirmations

President Donald Trump’s nominees for Treasury Department and IRS positions could have a quicker path to confirmation, as Senate Republicans change the chamber’s rules.

The Senate on Monday voted 51-44 to adopt a resolution that allows the chamber to consider dozens of nominees in a group, instead of individually. The rules change will be cemented when the Senate confirms an initial group of nominees, likely by Thursday, that does not include any Treasury picks.

Donald Korb, Trump’s nominee for IRS chief counsel, and Derek Theurer, Trump’s pick to be Treasury’s Capitol Hill chief liaison, ...