Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has delayed a vote onthe confirmation of Janet Yellen, President Obama's choice forchairman of the Fed, until Jan. 6.
There will be two roll call votes at 5:30 p.m. that day,according to the Senate floor schedule proposed late Thursday.
|The first is the “confirmation of the Yellen nomination” and the other is a “motion to invoke clotureon the motion to proceed to S. 1845 the Unemployment ExtensionAct.”
|Some Republicans have expressed opposition to Yellen's nomination, mainly over Senate Democrats' decision to changethe Senate rules on confirmations.
|Now, only 51 votes are required to overcome a filibuster asopposed to the previous 60-vote threshold.
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