Organizing resolutions needed to constitute each party’s membership on Senate committees may still get votes this week, but Republicans first have to resolve an intraparty issue over two senators from the same state trying to serve on the same committee.
Senate Republican Conference precedent prohibits senators from the same state from serving on a committee together without one getting a waiver.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., told reporters Tuesday that Democrats were ready to formally organize committees but were waiting on Republicans, who “have an elaborate process” they’re working through.
