Senate Democrats boycotted a committee meeting on Thursday to pushback on Republican efforts to fast-track President Donald Trump’s ambassador nominees, the Hill first reported.

The protest meant that the GOP needed to assemble all 12 of their members to reach a quorum and the Republicans then went about their business with no Democrat members present.

Among the most controversial of Trump’s picks is Charles Kushner for ambassador to France. Kushner is the father of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who served as a senior White House adviser in his first administration. Charles Kushner had previously received a pardon from the president thereby wiping clear his convictions on tax evasion, witness tampering, and other federal charges.

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