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Warren: No confirmation hearings until ethics concerns addressed
The Hill ^ | January 7, 2017 | Nikita Vladimirov

Posted on 01/08/2017 4:08:15 AM PST by Zakeet

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday called for the Senate to not hold confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks until after the completion of an ethics screening.

"Cabinet officials must put our country's interests before their own. No [confirmation] hearings should be held until we’re certain that’s the case," the Massachusetts Democrat tweeted.

[Snip]

"This is ridiculous," Warren tweeted, "[Trump's nominees] can’t drag their feet on ethics paperwork while their Senate friends try to run out the clock."

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: confirmation; ethics; hearings; senate; warren
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To: x1stcav

Do the rats in the minority have ANY SAY in when hearings are held?!?!? WTH?!?


41 posted on 01/08/2017 5:58:45 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Gaffer

I really hope you’re right. It’s been monumentally frustrating watching this over the years.


42 posted on 01/08/2017 6:06:41 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Zakeet

Doing this will accelerate the destruction of the Democrat Party so it might be worth a little inconvenience to make it happen.


43 posted on 01/08/2017 6:07:10 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Zakeet

Ok, well you go right ahead and stop those hearings, ya maggot.

Give it yer best shot.


44 posted on 01/08/2017 6:09:21 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: jmaroneps37

Remember the Senate has the Harry Reid Option available whenever it wants to play that card. Wonder if the faux senator voted for it?


45 posted on 01/08/2017 6:12:36 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: ronnie raygun

With the Democrat Party and their voters,having shit in one’s closet is a resume enhancer. Particularly if said shit is in the sexual genre. The more degenerate and perverse, the greater the enhancement.


46 posted on 01/08/2017 6:14:48 AM PST by sport
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To: Dr. Pritchett

The lede is a little different in emphasis from the body of the text. She knows they’ve got little leverage in the confirmation process. She’s just relying on their old worn-out game plan whereby she makes outrageous demands and the media picks up on it.

Doesn’t work anymore...unless the Repub’s let it.


47 posted on 01/08/2017 6:16:53 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: GOPJ
She’s amoral and unprincipled...

p> That alone is why she is a Democrat. I am sure that there are more, but those two alone will get one a seat of honor at the Democrat Party table every time.

48 posted on 01/08/2017 6:18:55 AM PST by sport
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To: Dahoser

I refuse now to believe we cannot overcome these twits. We have shown that there are WIDESPREAD shared interests and values across this country that can beat their infested rat-cities any day of the week. They will NEVER be able to change that because our Electoral system won’t allow it, and they haven’t the numbers in the States, nor the Congress or Presidency to do anything about it except whine like they always do.


49 posted on 01/08/2017 6:18:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Lion Den Dan

Yeah, no problem with the one who accepts money from Saudi Arabia.


50 posted on 01/08/2017 6:20:19 AM PST by Bogie
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To: Zakeet

LOOK OUT! She’s on the warpath!!!!! She’s gonna be taking scalps!!!!


51 posted on 01/08/2017 6:27:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Zakeet

Reap what you have sown, Witch.


52 posted on 01/08/2017 6:32:27 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Zakeet
Much more scorn and attention should be focused upon the Office of Ethics and the unprecedented letter that was sent by Director Walter Schaub who appears to be complicit in a partisan scheme to undermine the incoming Trump Administration.
53 posted on 01/08/2017 6:35:03 AM PST by scfirewall
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To: Zakeet

Say Fauxahontas, speaking of ethics, exactly how did you become a multi-millionaire on a teaching and government salary?


54 posted on 01/08/2017 6:35:17 AM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: x1stcav

“she makes outrageous demands and the media picks up on it”

Agreed. I was considering whether the media would have even mentioned a rank and file pubbie who “called for” something from BO, Pelosi, and their cabal.


55 posted on 01/08/2017 6:39:42 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Sirius Lee

That’s what gripes me the most about Crockajawea & her wealthy liberal pals, the freaking d@mned HYPOCRISY!!

I’d like to walk up to one and say in their face, “Filthy capitalist dollars!!? I thought you progressives never touch the stuff!”


56 posted on 01/08/2017 6:44:22 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Zakeet

The demonrats cannot get their heads around the fact they lost and what they think does not matter a whole lot.


57 posted on 01/08/2017 6:44:28 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Zakeet

Liz doesn’t seem to get it. The Dems are not in charge.


58 posted on 01/08/2017 6:45:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: elcid1970

Fauxcahontas need to shuttum big mouth & gettum back in teepee.

And start baking some Goofus cookies


59 posted on 01/08/2017 6:48:23 AM PST by ninonitti
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To: Zakeet

Warren and the democrats in congress are on their knees - they have no power left.

The ONLY thing they can do is caterwaul.

And everytime they open their mouths I want President Donald J Trump to show them what those holes are really for.


60 posted on 01/08/2017 6:53:53 AM PST by ninonitti
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