Oct. 8 (UPI) — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a bloc of 107 people nominated to serve in the Trump administration after majority Republicans secured a rules change making it easier to overcome Democratic delay tactics.

The 51-47 party line vote approved nominations that included ambassadorships, assistant or undersecretary positions, U.S. attorneys, seats on regulatory commissions and other roles in the federal government that required Senate approval.

Republicans began publicly looking into a rules change in September to speed up the confirmation process, which members of both parties at various times have used for political gain. The move is the latest in a series of rules changes that have weakened the leverage held by the chamber’s minority party.

Those confirmed Tuesday include Sergio Gor, a businessman and political operative, as ambassador to India, as well as former Georgia Senate candidate and football star Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas.

Senate majority leader John Thune issued a statement hailing the vote for “overcoming historic Democrat obstruction” and “getting more” of President Trump’s team in place. The vote is the second mass approval of Trump nominees after the Senate confirmed 58 positions last month.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer had earlier criticized the rules change, stating it would mean Republicans were caving to Trump and weakening the chamber’s “traditional and powerful sense of deliberation.”

“Well, the kind of people who have been confirmed by this chamber so far this year have been unprecedentedly bad,” Schumer said in a floor speech in September. “Beyond the pale. Scandal after scandal, expose after expose”