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Confirmation for No. 2 Homeland Security Job Moves Ahead (in dead of night vote)
Washington Post ^ | Dec 19, 2013 | Tom Hamburger

Posted on 12/19/2013 6:09:23 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds

Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee have decided to push ahead with confirmation of President Obama’s nominee for the No. 2 job at the Department of Homeland Security amid objections from Republicans.

GOP members on the panel see the move as an effort by Democrats to rush the approval of a controversial nominee by taking advantage of new Senate rules. Last month, the Senate adopted procedures that allow confirmation of presidential nominees by a majority vote instead of the 60 votes required in the past...

Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, called the decision to proceed with Mayorkas’s confirmation “troubling.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coburn; dhs; troubling
The vote is scheduled for 4AM tomorrow... Do you think there is anything fishy going on?
1 posted on 12/19/2013 6:09:23 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Do babies poop yellow?


2 posted on 12/19/2013 6:15:08 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Are these middle of the night confirmation votes a matter of Republican spite due to Reid going nuclear? Wow, that’s really effective leadership... f**ken losers.


3 posted on 12/19/2013 6:21:44 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

A criminal administration with a criminal Senate to back them up.

Totally repulsive. Is there anyone to stop these traitors?


4 posted on 12/19/2013 6:23:02 PM PST by dforest
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Marxists are infiltrating the government in all the key positions. Obama knows he has only a few years left to “fundamentally change” America, so he’s pulling all the stops.


5 posted on 12/19/2013 6:24:42 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Unfortunately I dont see what competent deputy could do anyway. Resign and write a book about the examples of corruption they saw.

There already is enough whistle blowers.

It would worry me if they picked someone with morals. Like an ex border patrol agent who was shot and survived but is still a misguided liberal. Someone like they they could pretend is a hardass and wants to secure not traffick the border.


6 posted on 12/19/2013 6:35:54 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Rodamala

If the republicans were legit they’d all simply go home and refuse to vote on these bogus bills and confirmations.


7 posted on 12/19/2013 6:47:53 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

It’s just that it’s extremely difficult in the current political climate to discover who’s the second most no-talent, inept pol available in America; there are tens of thousands ready to take the job who have excellent claims to being the MOST no-talent, inept pol available in America.


8 posted on 12/19/2013 7:09:19 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

We got obamacare on Christmas eve at midnight


9 posted on 12/19/2013 7:36:53 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Yet another smiling front man.

You can see the barely under the surface seething hate, just look right in his eyes.

Oh yeah, we will be seeing much more of this one.

.

10 posted on 12/19/2013 8:09:06 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI
OOPS!

That's Terry.

Here is the front man...


11 posted on 12/19/2013 8:12:04 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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