Posted on 02/01/2017 8:35:59 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans muscled through committee approval of President Donald Trump's nominees for Treasury and Health on Wednesday, suspending a key Senate rule in the latest escalation of partisan tensions in Congress.
Democrats boycotted a Finance Committee meeting and Republicans responded by temporarily scuttling a rule requiring at least one Democrat to be present for votes. The committee then approved Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to become Health secretary and financier Steve Mnuchin to be Treasury secretary by a pair of 14-0 votes.
Democrats had been demanding time to ask more questions about both nominees. Democrats say there were unresolved questions about both nominees' financial backgrounds.
Separately, the Senate planned to vote later in the day on Trump's nomination of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state after several Democrats crossed party lines to back the former Exxon Mobil CEO....
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Snortworthy!
Best election ever.
Could Republicans be growing a spine?
Mxyzptlx-Munchkin.
I have a question. Did Joe Munchin vote for The Munchkin, Steve Mnuchin?
Possible inserted by President Trump applying hard steel-toed kicks to the Senators' posteriors.
If the Republicans insist on being “high-minded” and allow the democrats to continue with obstruction, then it pays for the democrats to continue with obstruction. Maybe the Republicans have finally learned. It should be when the democrats go low, the Republicans go there to engage them.
Time to push Sessions through and lay down the law.
Yeah, payback’s a beotch!
Well why don’t they just do it for Sessions and the rest of them too?
I assume you mean Joe Manchin and he’s not on the finance committee.
https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/membership
Sessions was just confirmed out of committee 11-9
He’d better, or it’s back to the Fifth Dimension.
Let the sun shine in.
So the senators’ spines were there, but they were inactive until President Trump gave them a kick-start? Good to know. Thx.
Not really. They're just more spineless about facing his Twitter storm than they are of the 'Rats.
“I think he has a streak of vindictiveness.”
During the election, I saw a news piece where a reporter (maybe Billie Bush of all people) followed Trump to the voting booth...this was filmed several years ago, when the media still liked him.
Anyway, on the way out, somebody catches Trump’s eye. Trump walks back in to this person and says something to him. Bush asked about it, and Trump said he had once helped that person out, and he had been ungrateful/unloyal afterward...and Trump went out of his way to walk back in and give this person a piece of his mind.
So I do think he has a vindictive streak...and if somebody like McCain or Graham screw up these nominations, he will declare war on them.
Whether you agree with Trump or not ... no one can argue ... THIS is what leadership looks like.
Ding~! Winner
Ding~! Winner
Ding~! Winner
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