Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to pull a procedural move Tuesday afternoon to sneak President Obama’s Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson through Senate confirmation, The Daily Caller has learned.
The highly unusual maneuver will permit Reid to bypass the permanent Senate floor “hold” placed on Bryson’s nomination by Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Inhofe in July for Bryson’s involvement in founding “the radical Natural Resources Defense Council” in the 1970′s.
If Reid is able to move forward procedurally, Bryson’s confirmation could reach the Senate floor on Tuesday afternoon. In that case, a simple 50-vote majority would confirm Bryson’s nomination — meaning Democrats could simply slip him through.
Bryson, the former CEO of Edison International, was also chairman of the board of BrightSource Energy, a solar energy startup that received one of the biggest government-backed loan guarantees ever — a $1.6 billion guarantee to build a solar energy facility in California.
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