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Associated Press reports that:

Senators on Thursday were expected to confirm former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor's nomination to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals....

AP also reports that, "Michigan nominees David McKeague and Richard Griffin get confirmation votes later today."

Byron York tells the tale of how The Deal was struck. His article's titled, "Dr. Frist's Operation: How the Senate Majority Leader Played a Game of Filibuster Chicken." Here are the results of the game, according to York:

Republicans came out of the filibuster showdown with six previously filibustered nominees headed for confirmation, and, perhaps more important, in a strong position ultimately to break all the Democratic judicial filibusters, should it come to that.

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