Senate Republicans are staring down a high-stakes week as they try to settle on a plan of attack in their bid to expedite the confirmation of hundreds of President Trump’s lower-level nominees that Democrats have been holding up.

Tensions are still simmering almost a month after senators left Washington after failing to break the logjam and Republicans will return next week on the precipice of changing the chamber’s rules to more easily push the nominees over the finish.

“The expectation is to move a rule change fairly quick,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) told The Hill in a phone interview, noting that conversations in the conference are expected shortly after the Senate reconvenes. “The conference is going to have its input on it. We’ll probably have to massage it some.”

“We all agr

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