Article snippet: Republicans are mulling changing the Senate's rules to speed up consideration of MORE's nominees. GOP senators want to cut down the amount of debate time needed to confirm hundreds of the president’s picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senate’s rulebook to stonewall and slow-walk nominees and the GOP agenda. Republicans have been privately discussing the potential changes for months, but support for the move appears to be growing amid mounting frustration about the pace of nomination votes. “It merely shortens what is currently an unreasonably long process,” said Sen. MORE (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. The panel held its first hearing of the year before the holidays to discuss the measure from GOP Sen. MORE (R-Okla.). The freshman senator wants to limit the amount of debate time on nominations after they’ve already cleared a procedural hurdle and shown they have enough support to pass. Under Lankford’s resolution, post-cloture debate for non-Cabinet nominees would shrink from 30 hours down to eight hours. For district court nominees — whose decisions can be overturned by federal circuit courts or the Supreme Court — debate would be limited to two hours. Lankford argued that with nominees able to eat up days of Senate floor time, the chamber is increasingly having to choose between confirming a president’s nominees or passing legislation. “We have learned as a body that we are either going to do nominees, or we are going to do legislati... Link to the full article to read more