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Senate votes on party lines to confirm Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator
CNBC ^ | 2/17/2017 | Tom DiChristopher

Posted on 02/17/2017 10:29:04 AM PST by rb22982

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday in a mostly party line vote.

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To: rb22982

They are starting to crack. 2 jumped party !

“Democrats Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, both from energy-producing states, said they will vote with Republicans to confirm Pruitt. Just one GOP senator, Susan Collins of Maine, said she would vote against Pruitt.

The final vote was 52 to 46 in favor of confirmation.”


41 posted on 02/17/2017 11:00:47 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: onona
Perhaps their pink slips will suffice

I though they were all going to resign anyhow than work for DJT.
42 posted on 02/17/2017 11:01:08 AM PST by Delphster
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To: georgiarat

Agreed / just copy/pasted the title as it was written


43 posted on 02/17/2017 11:01:49 AM PST by rb22982
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To: rb22982

The fascist, obstructionist “Democrats” need to knock of their BS and get this done. Clintoonie lost. They need to get over it and “move on”.


44 posted on 02/17/2017 11:02:19 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: rb22982

This is one of the most important appointments by President Trump. The EPA needs to be gutted root and branch. It’s become a communist anti-America agency hell-bent on destroying the economy through regulation and fiat.

God Bless President Trump and Secretary Pruitt.


45 posted on 02/17/2017 11:04:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: butlerweave

Hopefully they’ll need some cardboard boxes and packing tape.


46 posted on 02/17/2017 11:04:58 AM PST by lacrew
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To: rb22982

Go to the department that chokes the life out of farmers. Advise them that 5 people will remain employed at the end of the day. They will be the ones who can shred and reverse the most regulations by 5 pm. Go.

Go to the department that ordered guns, ammo and military hardware for the EPA. Fire the lot of them and put a permanent toxic employee memo in their govt. file.

Go to the department that spilled the gold mine holding pond into the river in CO. Assign them to monitoring field mouse populations in Alaska’s north slope, with a pay cut.


47 posted on 02/17/2017 11:10:22 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Joe knows that Trump just saved his state with yesterday’s signed HR but a continuation of Obama’s EPA actions would kill it for good.


48 posted on 02/17/2017 11:10:24 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Joe Manchin - coal. Heitkamp - fracking. Re-election year 2018 and 2018. In 2019, if they are still in the Senate, they will return to the fold. And they are given permission to vote their intelligence on this one issue, although Manchin votes intelligently more often than that.


49 posted on 02/17/2017 11:12:03 AM PST by bIlluminati (Comey - Obstructing justice since 1995!)
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To: bassmaner

Thank you for the correction. I did mean Puzder for Secretary of Labor.


50 posted on 02/17/2017 11:32:58 AM PST by grania
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To: rb22982

Just as long as he is approved. Who cares what the democrat losers think!!!


51 posted on 02/17/2017 11:38:57 AM PST by ontap
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To: rb22982

“Mostly” party line. I heard Manchin and some other Dem were going to flip.


52 posted on 02/17/2017 11:42:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rb22982

Now farmers in California will get the irrigation water they need and are entitled to, and it will be “Drill baby , drill!”


53 posted on 02/17/2017 11:53:48 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: sagar

Entropy and the laws of thermodynamics say otherwise, but they choose to exaggerate and make research and political careers out of near fictitious global warming.

Remember the 7% rule. 7% increase year over year and after 10 years you have double the base you started with.

Even a modest 3-5% and you double every generation (20 years). .5% and you’ll double every century.

Now apply that to things around you.


54 posted on 02/17/2017 11:55:28 AM PST by Fhios
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To: rb22982

Pruitt’s first challenge is to clean up one of the worst toxic waste sites in America, the EPA!


55 posted on 02/17/2017 11:57:36 AM PST by Hillbilly sage
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56 posted on 02/17/2017 12:08:40 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Life was so much better before Hart-Cellar.)
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To: rb22982

See also:

Scott Pruitt, longtime adversary of EPA, confirmed to lead the agency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/17/scott-pruitt-long-time-adversary-of-epa-confirmed-to-lead-the-agency/?utm_term=.12ef4e46e64c


57 posted on 02/17/2017 12:09:36 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: rb22982

WOO HOO!!!


58 posted on 02/17/2017 12:15:38 PM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Troops, ;Our Leaders And Our Nation)
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To: Conserv

I thought they already did that and that’s how they got that way.


59 posted on 02/17/2017 12:25:37 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: rb22982
Pagans everywhere are having a conniption.


60 posted on 02/17/2017 12:27:01 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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