I agree with your woman’s intuition. It’s taking longer to get Trump’s people in place because they are being fought tooth and nail by the dimocrats. The republicans are just standing around with their arms folded looking at the floor or something. I guess the fact that they are upright is an improvement over how they threw themselves on the floor and let Obama walk all over them. Chaffetz has just been acting to weird. Something about this whole thing is suspicious.
There are hundreds of senate-confirmed positions that need to be filled, and the Democrats are insisting on using the 30 hours of hearings, that current rules allow them, on each. At this rate, they will never be done.
The Republican Senate needs to "nuke option" that rule, for non-cabinet-level appointees. For low-level appointees, the names should be announced, then two weeks later a vote will be held with no debate.
Some one has something on Chaffetz and its resign or else. He is just trying to stick the boot in on his way out.
The House has nothing to do with that. But Ryan has everything to do with all the investigatory committees he has running in the House.