Senate Republicans pushed back against Democratic obstructionism Wednesday, suspending the rules to advance two Cabinet nominees out of committee and moving along the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for attorney general, who had been held up.

After strident attacks on Sessions by a pair of Democratic senators, the Judiciary Committee on a party line, 11-9 vote, sent the nomination to the full Senate.

“They should be ashamed.”

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Meanwhile, Senate Republicans suspended the rules requiring at least one Democratic member to be present at the Senate Finance Committee in order to vote on two other nominations. Votes for Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary and Tom Price for health and human services secretary were supposed to take place Tuesday, but Democrats boycotted the votes.

Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) lambasted Democrats on the committee.

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“They should be ashamed,” he told reporters Wednesday.

Democrats also had slowed down the Sessions nomination Tuesday by taking advantage of procedural maneuvers to limit the length of the hearing.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Wednesday that sentiment in his state was running 15-1 against Sessions. He cited differences with Sessions on immigration, criminal justice reform, gay rights, climate change, and the Violence Against Women Act. He said the nominee’s testimony during his confirmation hearing did not assuage his concern.

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“We have been burned by confirmation etiquette before,” he said.

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) spent much of his time attacking fellow committee member Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over an exchange that had taken place during questioning of Sessions. That prompted an objection by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who noted that Cruz was not in the room at the time.

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Franken alleged that Cruz misrepresented facts surrounding testimony in 1986 that helped sink Sessions’ bid for a federal judgeship.

Franken also zeroed in on written answers Sessions submitted in support of his attorney general nomination about civil rights cases he personally handled. Sessions acknowledged that in four of the cases listed, he merely provided support for lawyers from the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington.

“Sen. Sessions would not have tolerated that kind of a misrepresentation of a nominee before this committee, and none of us should, either,” Franken said.

So the confirmation wheels continue to turn, albeit slowly. The pace of confirmation votes continues to lag behind the pace set by the Senate when it considered former President Obama’s nominees in 2009. But Trump appears on track to eventually have every one of his nominees in office.