Reply #37: In the absence of a filibuster, there is another obstruction technique that the Republicans

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employed in the Senate:

It's called a "HOLD." Essentially all a member had to do was place a HOLD or a number of "holds" on pending legislation. He/she could also recall a proposal from committee, place a hold on it, and that hold could be indefinite.

The filibuster and "holds" are only two in a long list of parliamentary rules that the minority party has at its disposal to use to stop legislation or keep it from ever getting out of committee to the floor.

And that's exactly what the Republicans did.

I work for a federal agency, and Republicans placed "holds" on nearly every single one of Obama's major agency nominees, especially at the Big Three (Treasury, State, and Judiciary).

It had nothing to do with Obama. These were congressional rules that Republicans exploited for the last few years.