Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Thursday he would not support a simple-majority vote to change the Senate’s rules on order to speed up the confirmation of more than 160 pending Trump administration nominees, who have been held up by Democrats demanding time-consuming votes on even low-level, noncontroversial picks.

The backlog of nominees has prompted Senate Republicans to discuss a variety of rules reforms, such as getting rid of the two hours of debate time that must elapse between a key procedural step called a cloture vote and a final vote.

Republicans are also discussing packaging lower-level........

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