The text of the letter and list of signers follows:
Washington, DC
Conservatives urge Senate Republicans to prioritize and swiftly confirm the president’s nominees.
There are close to 100 presidential nominations now pending on the Senate’s executive calendar, and each of them is vital to the president’s ability to carry out his agenda. The president is making dramatic change in Washington – doing exactly what the American people voted for him to do – and he cannot fully execute on his policies without his political appointees in place, ensuring that the permanent bureaucracy does not undermine him. This is a lesson the conservative movement learned acutely during Donald Trump’s first term – the president’s appointees are vital to ensuring that the president’s agenda is carried out.
Through bipartisan actions taken in 2013, 2017, and 2019, the filibuster no longer exists for presidential nominees, and for most of the nominations currently pending on the calendar, neither does the post-cloture 30 hours.
The Senate could easily confirm dozens of nominees a week if they chose to work a full five-day work week, between the hours of 9am and 5pm. The current Senate workweek of 2.5 days a week (Monday evenings through Thursday at 12pm) means the Senate sometimes confirms less than five nominees a week.
This current glacial pace means that future nominees will experience months long delays, and the president’s agenda will suffer for it.
There is no excuse for the repeated delays and slow pace of Senate confirmations. Democrats can no longer block or obstruct nominations, and very little time must elapse between invoking cloture and confirming a nominee. The missing element is the will of the Senate Republican conference to stay in town and do the work.
We urge them to act with all urgency and haste in completing this basic responsibility of the Senate. President Trump’s agenda depends upon it.
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
David Bozell
President
ForAmerica
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President, CEO & Chief Counsel
First Liberty Institute
William L. Walton
The Bill Walton Show
Vice Chairman, CPAC
Eric Teetsel
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Renewing America
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and
President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Alfred S. Regnery
President
Republic Book Publishers
Noah Wall
President & Founder
State Leadership Initiative
Bob Carlstrom
The Carlstrom Group
Ginni Thomas
President
Liberty Consulting
Diana L. Banister
President/CEO
SGS Advisors
Myron Ebell
Chairman
American Lands Council
Lisa B. Nelson
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Rebecca Weber
CEO, Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)
Rod D. Martin, J.D.
Founder & CEO
Martin Capital, Inc
Guillermo J. Aragon
Chief Strategy Officer
Martin Capital, Inc
Gary Marx
President
The Concord Fund
Richard Norman
Managing Partner
Richard Norman Consulting
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper
Reagan’s Defense and Space Negotiator
SDI Director under President GHW Bush
Alan Sears
Founder
Alliance Defending Freedom
Jeffrey M. Kruszyna
Founder
JMK Victory
Amy Kremer
Chairwoman
Women for America First
Travis Korson
Senior Fellow
Frontiers of Freedom
E.C. Sykes
General Partner
Aslan Ventures
Ron Pearson
President
Pearson & Pipkin
Kristen A. Ullman
President
Eagle Forum
Kelly Kullberg
General Secretary, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
J. Christian Adams
President
Public Interest Legal Foundation
Frank Pavone
National Director
Priests for Life
Jerry Maston
Pastor/Speaker, River Of Life Church, Leadership Always, Christian Values Summit
Melvin Adams
President
Noah Webster Educational Foundation
Melissa Emery
Board Member
Media Research Center
Rosemary Jenks
Cofounder
Immigration Accountability Project
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State House
The Honorable Richard D. Hayes
State Representative
State of Texas
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Kielle C. Lindsey
President
The Lindsey Foundation
Dr. Erika LeBaron
Physician, President, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
Richard G Scurry
VP New Projects
14ALL.US
Otto Heck
Chief Operating Officer
Internet Accountability Project
Steve Milloy
Senior Legal Fellow
Energy & Environment Legal Institute
Melissa Ortiz
Principal
Capability Consulting
Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
Ron Armstrong
President
Stand Up Michigan
Rod Vandenbos
CEO
GVR
Matt Chancey
Vice President
Persecution Project
Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
CorsiNation.com
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Senior Legal Fellow
Conservative Partnership Institute
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Thomas H. Jones
Founder
American Accountability Foundation
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Herman Pirchner, Jr.
Founding President
American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC)
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America’s Foundation
Christina Murphy, Esq.
President
The Martin Foundation
Bishop E.W. Jackson, Sr.
Founder and President
STAND Foundation, Inc.
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Karen England
President
Capitol Resource Institute
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Ralph A. Rebandt II
President/Founder
Michigan Lighthouse Ministries
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
William W. Pascoe, III
Our Man in Washington
Tea Party Patriots Action
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
RC Williams
Founder & Co-Chair
Watchmen Action, Inc.
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Gerard Kassar
State Chairman
NYS Conservative Party
Jim Pfaff
President
The Conservative Caucus
William P. Mills, III
Member
Council for National Policy
The Honorable James C. Miller III
Director of OMB (1987-1988)
Donald T. Eason
Minister and President,
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Michael Lunsford
Executive Director
Citizens for a New Louisiana
Allen J. Hébert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
Mike Davis
Founder & President
Article III Project
Shea Bradley-Farrell, PhD
President,
Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research and Education
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Carol Rebandt
Director
First Lighthouse Book Club of Michigan
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
The Honorable Elias Coop-Gonzalez
Delegate
WV House of Delegates
Paul Blair
Founder/Pastor
Liberty Pastors Network
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Jerry A. Johnson, PhD
President & CEO (2013-2019)
National Religious Broadcasters
Dr. Eric Wallace, PhD
President
Freedom's Journal Institute
Nancy Schulze
Chief of Political Strategy
Physicians for Reform
David Kullberg
President
Christians for A Sound Economy (CASE)
Tim Throckmorton
President
Lifepointe Ministries
The Honorable Donald J. Devine
Director, U.S Office of Personnel Management, President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Dr. Paige Patterson
President
Sandy Creek Foundation
Tim Wildmon
President
American Family Association
The Honorable Charles J. Cooper
Assistant Attorney General, President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Cooper & Kirk
- Trump nominees
- Senate confirmation
- grassroots activism
- Trump cabinet
- Senate calendar
- Sub cabinet level officers
- Trump first term
- Trump appointees
- Filibuster
- presidential nominations
- 5-day work week
- ambassadorial nominations
