Posted on 02/02/2021 12:09:30 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. He’ll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and fighting climate change.
Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Biden’s one-time rival during the Democratic presidential primaries, was approved on a 86-13 vote.
“I’m honored and humbled by today’s vote in the Senate—and ready to get to work,” Buttigieg tweeted shortly after he was confirmed.
Praised by Biden as bringing a “new voice” to the administration, Buttigieg takes over a Transportation Department with 55,000 employees and a budget of tens of billions dollars. He has pledged to quickly get to work promoting safety and restoring consumer trust in America’s transportation networks as airlines, buses, city subway systems and Amtrak reel from plummeting ridership in the coronavirus pandemic.
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He knows his way around dark tunnels.
Did I say around? I meant into.
I googled the roll call for this confirmation and nothing. I was able to see the 13 Republican senators that opposed him gettinmg confirmed, but no list of the RINOs that approved this ButtGag moron.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Scott and Rubio voted no.
Which 37 RINO’s voted for him?
i knew linda Graham would vote for the Buttguy
Here’s the bunch of losers who voted for the Buttguy.
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Braun (R-IN)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Rounds (R-SD)
Sasse (R-NE)
Sullivan (R-AK)
)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
36 GOP traitors.
1600 Hershey Ave?
Buttigieg was confirmed on February 2, 2021, by a vote of 86-13. Thirteen Republican senators voted against his confirmation:[3]
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
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