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Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees
The Hill ^
| 1/31/17
| Peter Schroeder
Posted on 01/31/2017 8:03:43 AM PST by browniexyz
Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two of President Trumps more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration.
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trumps pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department. The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join Trumps Cabinet.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cabinet; democrats; politics; trump; trumpcabinet
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Time to call your Senators and tell em to get cracking on staffing Trump's cabinet! The crybaby Democrats can challenge federal agency action later if they want!
To: browniexyz
They must not remember what happened to their side when Khrushchev walked out of the Security Council.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:05:03 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: browniexyz
The Democrats used to lock the doors to keep the Republicans out, so it is an improvement that the Democrats are self locking.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:06:05 AM PST
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: browniexyz
To: browniexyz
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:06:50 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: browniexyz
I've said it before and I'll say it again - these are not "Democrats," they're Progressives, i.e. Socialists/Communists.
We are in an undeclared civil war and the GOP damned well better lock and load NOW, before the commies attempt to overthrow President Trump.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:07:19 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: browniexyz
Warner and Kaine’s lines are busy.
To: browniexyz
We should snail mail them pacifiers.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:08:41 AM PST
by
SoFloFreeper
(Isaiah 25:8)
To: oh8eleven
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - these are not “Democrats,” they’re Progressives, i.e. Socialists/Communists.
We are in an undeclared civil war and the GOP damned well better lock and load NOW, before the commies attempt to overthrow President Trump.
You’re exactly right!!
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:09:29 AM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: browniexyz
We should snail mail them pacifiers.
To: browniexyz
Looks like Trump better appoint loyal bureaucrats as acting cabinet officers now, given what happened in AG
He needs people who have his back and he can find them among the deputies - maybe some of whom are less desirable to the democrats than the cabinet picks
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:09:42 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:10:17 AM PST
by
magua
To: BenLurkin
Denying them a quorum. Like when the Dems in the Texas Legislature all left the state.
McConnell needs to crack the whip NOW.
To: browniexyz
Too bad DJT can’t directly Drain the senate Swamp
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:11:23 AM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: browniexyz
do they need them there?
r has majority.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:11:50 AM PST
by
Principled
(OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
To: oh8eleven
#6 - Worth reading again.
It looks like a rebellion.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:11:54 AM PST
by
ptsal
To: browniexyz
Where is the Senate Leader in all of this?
He seems to have disappeared.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:12:02 AM PST
by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
To: browniexyz
Paging the Boo Hoo girl
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:12:34 AM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: browniexyz
A wartime Majority Leader would be ripping up Defense Department contracts in these districts.
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posted on
01/31/2017 8:12:40 AM PST
by
AU72
To: browniexyz
Republicans are idiots and weak knee’d! Committees and Sub Committees are not even constitutional. Get rid of them, or remove them on a party line vote from being required before sending nominees to the full floor vote. Grow a pair, get SOMETHING done for crying out loud!
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