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Washington was immobilized by snow on Friday. This is highly unusual. Normally, Washington is immobilized by senators.
This time storm warnings came just as the Senate had hit a point of uncommon productivity. In a single week, it managed to not only confirm two U.S. marshals, but also to approve a couple of nominations to the Obama administration. Finally, we can sleep easy in the knowledge that the Labor Department has a No. 3 person.
Then Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama put a hold on the 70-odd other administration nominations that are still pending. Everything came to whatever you call a screeching halt when the vehicle in question was moving at the speed of the Senate.
This was a dramatic gesture, one Shelby must have felt was so important that he took time out from his normal duties blocking all progress on creating a consumer protection agency for financial products.
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