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Senate Confirms California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as Health Secretary by Ultrathin Margin
breitbart ^ | 18 Mar 2021 | ASHLEY OLIVER

Posted on 03/18/2021 2:15:15 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

The Senate confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, 50–49, in the closest confirmation vote a Biden cabinet nominee has seen.

All but one Republican [Susan Collins] opposed Becerra’s confirmation.

Becerra, a pro-abortion former U.S. representative widely criticized for lacking health experience, is the only cabinet member of the 20 so far confirmed who was not favorably recommended after their committee hearing. The Finance Committee was deadlocked 14–14 on approving him, which forced Democrats to vote on discharging his nomination from the committee. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor last week prior to voting for the discharge, “I’m perplexed that none of my Republican colleagues would vote for him.”

Schumer bashed Republicans in a speech Thursday just prior to the confirmation vote for attempting to “derail [Becerra’s] nomination” with arguments that “verge on the ridiculous.” Becerra, Schumer said, “has decades of standing up for working and middle class Americans in Congress, fighting to protect and expand Medicare, Medicaid and working to safeguard our healthcare system from attacks by the Trump administration.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Becerra “woefully unqualified” and “a partisan politician with no expertise in healthcare” in a statement after his confirmation.

Sen. Ted Cruz deemed Becerra the “single-worst cabinet nominee put forward by Joe Biden.”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: babykiller; becerra; califag; depthealth; dhhs; healthsecy; xavierbecerra
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

And in a bar on 6th street in Austin about 30 years ago I had 3 machos tell me “you gonna speak SPAH-nish!”

The boots with the sliver trim they were wearing was um, so tasteful...all the usual MexiBling


21 posted on 03/18/2021 3:16:47 PM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
"Susan Colonoscopy: painful and embarrassing."

Perfect description...

22 posted on 03/18/2021 3:18:13 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Bratch

Her constituents want a genocidal La Raza communist as HHS secretary? Why do they hate America?


23 posted on 03/18/2021 3:20:27 PM PDT by fluorescence
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To: MarvinStinson

The RINO Senators have had a perfect record thus far of not forcing Kamala Harris to cast her tie breaking vote.

How convenient for just one Senator to abstain from voting so the count is 49 to 50!!!!


24 posted on 03/18/2021 3:27:52 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MarvinStinson

Another Democrat that continues to fail upward.


25 posted on 03/18/2021 3:29:19 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The RINOs come through every time. For the other side. They never disappoint.


26 posted on 03/18/2021 3:30:09 PM PDT by sport
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To: fluorescence

Her constituents don’t have any knowledge of the nominee other than she’s a member of an ethnic minority and voting against her would be racist.

Because if it’s on the tv/internet it must be true.


27 posted on 03/18/2021 3:31:21 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: MarvinStinson

It’s getting more difficult to not just throw the hands up and pivot to saving ourselves for the country is a sinking ship. DC simply needs to disappear but it is going nowhere.


28 posted on 03/18/2021 3:32:01 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Perhaps the missing hard drive will magically reappear in DC.

Only Xavier knows for sure...


29 posted on 03/18/2021 3:38:33 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: MarvinStinson; All
Thank you for referencing that article MarvinStinson. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Becerra “woefully unqualified” and “a partisan politician with no expertise in healthcare” in a statement after his confirmation."


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

All that post-17th Amendment RINO McConnell ever had to do to shut down unconstitutional federal interference in state healthcare is to read Free Republic to point out the following.

Previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified what anybody who studies the Constitution would conclude, that states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate healthcare.

But until patriots work with their state lawmakers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above, the states are going to continue to struggle to find the revenues that they need to give their respective resident voters the kind healthcare programs that they want.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

The constitutionally indefensible Department of Health and Human Services needs to be shut down ASAP imo.

Insights welcome.

30 posted on 03/18/2021 3:46:40 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: MarvinStinson

The usual suspect.


31 posted on 03/18/2021 3:53:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Amendment10

No government ever reduces the scope of its influence or power. “We have to pass more laws and regulations’ is the prime directive of bureaucracies.

It matters not that HHS, Education, and a slew of other agencies are a waste and not part of the power of the federal government under the constitution. All three branches decided these ARE in the constitutional, and the government has the last word.

All those SCOTUS cites predate the “new” commerce clause jurisprudence, started around Schecter Poultry and running through Wickard v. Filburn and more recently the pot decision, Raich.

Even gun regulation is now justified as constitutional by dint of commerce clause. And if that doesn’t work, Roberts will just relabel the law as a tax. All taxes are constitutional.


32 posted on 03/18/2021 3:56:37 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: polymuser
Not for quite some time, I fear. America is not overall repentant yet. Gonna take some real, painful, loss-full suffering first.

Sadly I have to agree with you.

After all we endured last year, it’s obvious that it will take A LOT more suffering before the sheeple will start to figure things out.

33 posted on 03/18/2021 3:57:16 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: MarvinStinson

I have NO respect for the people of Maine.


34 posted on 03/18/2021 3:57:52 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: MarvinStinson

He’s a lowlife, subhuman, dirtbag, commie, socialist, anarchist, leftist, hate-America POS, and needs to be stood against a stone wall.

SPJNK.


35 posted on 03/18/2021 4:04:31 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

No pile on intended, but for DECADES Christians have nicely tolerated child sacrifice under the moniker of abortion, by acid, cutting preborn into pieces, head-crushing and/or incision to the base of the brain, all while daring to pray for security-of-self and country.

Judgement and chastisement is a promise against abject disobedience and grave sin that spares no one.

“Many will cry out in my name,’Lord! Lord!’ I will say I never knew you.”


36 posted on 03/18/2021 4:20:25 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Publik Skules/Academia -> The Farm team, for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Get ready for : “If you own a gun, you are mentally ill”.


37 posted on 03/18/2021 4:35:34 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: carriage_hill
a stone wall

Happy days:

.....Now they are 2 GOOD commies.

38 posted on 03/18/2021 4:38:08 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: Cboldt; All
"All three branches decided these ARE in the constitutional, and the government has the last word."

The voters actually have the last word imo. But corrupt, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification activist lawmakers, presidents and justices have seized the opportunity provided by widespread, inexcusable ignorance of the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers to trick ordinary voters into turning the Oval Office into a throne room imo.

Regarding Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard), that’s when FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices scandalously started the political nullification of 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state sovereignty, including effectively nullifying the unique Article V power of the states to amend the Constitution.

More specifically, using inappropriate terms like “concept” and “implicit,” here is what was left of 10A by FDR’s activist justices in Wickard after the last of state sovereignty-respecting majority justices had appropriately emphasized that amendment in United States v. Butler.

Ongoing abuse of their 17A power by ordinary voters sending crooks to DC has really finished off 10A and Article V imo.

Think of this political mayhem as crooks following the money, following the unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that corrupt Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Insights welcome.

39 posted on 03/18/2021 4:46:01 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: lee martell

No he was confirmed because of the imbeciles in Georgia who listened to lin wood.


40 posted on 03/18/2021 4:46:16 PM PDT by nbenyo
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