FASTER? PLEASE! Conservatives to McConnell: Time to Force Issue on Nominees, Spending Bills.

Perdue and several other GOP senators plan to send a letter to McConnell later this week encouraging him to keep the Senate in on Mondays and Fridays and in August if it has not finished its spending bills and wrapped up work on the confirmations.

“This is a commitment to [McConnell] that we are willing to do whatever is necessary to get these confirmations accomplished and also to ensure that we debate the funding bills now in whatever manner they come,” Perdue told reporters Tuesday.

“We have an uphill battle, and we believe we have to get outside the box in terms of getting the government funded before September 30,” he added.

Canceling the August recess would be particularly punitive for Senate Democrats, as well as vulnerable Democrats running for reelection, although there are far more Senate Democrats than Republicans in close reelection contests this year.

If Democrats want to play the delay game, don’t let them play the campaign game.