Posted on 07/23/2019 10:13:07 AM PDT by conservative98
The Senate confirmed former Army Lt. Col. Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense Tuesday, making him the first permanent Pentagon boss since James Mattis resigned last December.
Esper, who served 10 years on active duty and 11 years in the National Guard and Army Reserve, was Acting Secretary before his nomination, and Patrick Shanahan had been Acting Secretary prior to that.
The vote was not close, with the Senate confirming Esper by a vote of 90-8. The no votes included 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.
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All Dems...
Booker(D-NJ)*
Gillibrand (D-NY)*
Harris (D-CA)*
Klobuchar (D-MN)*
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Warren (D-MA)*
Wyden (D-OR)
Crazy Bernie didn’t vote.
Not Rumsfeld. He said (along with John F. Kerry and John McCain) that there were no living POWs in Southeast Asia in 1991. There were, at the time, more than 100 living POWs in Southeast Asia, including some who were rescued/escaped later.
He got rid of mandatory Friday “safety briefs” in the Army (some units still do them but they are not required to do so) and cut out a lot of ridiculous mandatory training and paperwork that had nothing whatsoever to do with killing the enemy. He’s cool by me.
Thanks again conservative98.
[The no votes included 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.]
I’m shocked, I tell ya!!!!!
[My spidey sense is sorta wacky on this one...]
Just don’t cast Kirsten Dunst.
I beg of you....
Back when Conan was still funny (give it time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnSp8MVw0Bc&feature=youtu.be&t=398
Ditto. This does not bode well.
Whom did you hope Trump would nominate? I hoped he’d choose Dirk Kempthorne, because of his experience as a cabinet member, senator, and governor. While he was a senator, he was in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
I’m a former teenage drunken sailor, do you think I have a chance?
You’ll need to wait for a Democrat to be president for your chance.
“You’ll need to wait for a Democrat to be president for your chance.”
I’m a white male and a Southern Baptist so the only thing a democrat might offer me would be execution.
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