Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) announces plans for significant changes to the Senate's operating procedures when Republicans take control in January 2025. These changes include a more aggressive work schedule with five-day weeks and limited recesses, aimed at quickly confirming President-elect Donald Trump's nominees and advancing his agenda. Additionally, Thune promises a more inclusive process that reduces leadership power and empowers individual senators.
(R-SD) is promising significant changes to how the upper chamber operates when the Republican majority takes over on Jan. 3.From longer workweeks to a more inclusive process for rank-and-file members, Thune has vowed several modifications at the behest of the conference’s more hard-line conservatives like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rick Scott (R-FL) that would curtail leadership power to give individual senators more influence. Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., followed at right by Sen.
Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., arrives to speak to reporters following a Republican policy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) One of the most immediate changes will be what Thune describes as an “aggressive” Senate schedule in President-elect Donald Trump’s first 100 days to confirm his nominees and enact his agenda.“Friday votes will be the norm, and we’re not going to be having much in the way of recess in the first 100 days,” Thune said in a recent Senate floor speech. “That’s because we have a lot of work to do, and we’re not going to get it done on the kind of abbreviated schedule that we’ve had in 2024.”(D-NY), the chamber has traditionally operated on a four-day workweek, similar to the House. Senators fly in Monday for evening votes and stay through Thursday afternoon votes before departing for a three-day weekend. The schedule allows senators from states with longer commutes to return home each weekend. Thune’s 2025 schedule features mostly five-day workweeks and no recesses until the week of March 17. Historically, the Senate has taken one week of recess after every three weeks in session.It’s an ambitious schedule that could subside after Trump’s first few months back in office, particularly if the Republican House struggles to conduct business with its razor-thin margin
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