Update: October 7, David Keeling was confirmed by the Senate to the role of Assistant Secretary of Labor at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).  Notably, rather than receiving an individual vote, Keeling was confirmed as part of a package of more than 100 Trump nominees for roles all across the federal government. Senate Republicans recently changed procedural rules of the Senate to allow voting for or against the confirmation of large groups of nominees en masse, without a numerical limit on how many nominees can be voted on at one time. This will effectively limit debate and accountability on votes for individual nominees, and prevent the opposition party from blocking many individual nominees. However, this procedure will be limited to nominees for lower- and mid-level executive branch nominees, sub-Cabinet level positions, and ambassadorships. It also cannot be used to confirm judicial nominees.