Republicans turn the tables on obstructionist Democrats, confirm two nominees in committee
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– Republicans who lead a key Senate panel suspended their own rules Wednesday and advanced President Trump’s picks to lead the Treasury and Health and Human Services departments unilaterally, saying they had no choice after Democrats boycotted committee votes for a second day in a row.The Senate Finance Committee advanced Steven Mnuchin to lead Treasury and Rep. Tom Price as health secretary on Republican votes along, clearing the way for a confirmation vote before the full chamber. Both nominees made it out of committee on 14-0 votes.The votes were supposed to occur on Tuesday. Yet Democrats derailed the markup by refusing to show up, which meant the panel didn’t have the quorum needed to do business. At least one Democrat must be present.They failed to show for the rescheduled markup early Wednesday, leading to the rule change.“They have nobody to blame but themselves,” Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, said.
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the last three presidents, Bush and Bill Clinton had 10 cabinet nominees confirmed..
in January. Trump got 2.
This extremely immature, even infantile, tantrum throwing by the dems is going to backfire.
Their arrogance in rubbing the Reps' faces in it, when they owned Congress
the first two years of obamao's corrupt regime, has backfired.
They gave the reps all the reason to have backbones and kick dem ass right back,
including the nuclear option. What goes around, comes around. Hairy Reid changed
rules to spite them, so Pandora's Box was opened.
It's really corrupt for the dems to say they were going to fight like all hell to stop the
Supreme Court nominee... without even knowing who it was. That is really crap,
since the reps gave obaMao his two lillylivered activist leftist "judges".
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Lol
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They'll probably end up doing the nuclear option to get the Supreme Court nominee in.
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it's heartwarming to have a Real American president who knows
full well how to salute and respect our military.
and our Constitution. And all Americans, no matter what color or religion they are.
We saved America, you betcha. Meanwhile, Ruth Darthvader Ginsburg is 83, surely
she wants to finally retire and live the good life...
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I think it's adorable you think you saved America btw
Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody! -
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I think it's adorable you think you saved America btw
I think it's adorable they are calling Democrats obstructionists considering the last 8 years and considering how they used obstruction to steal the Supreme Court seat that Obama was to appoint.
"I said, 'I need someone who's going to want to get on the roller coaster with me knowing that it's not always going to be fun,'" -Paul DePodesta -
I think it's adorable you think you saved America btw
I think it's adorable they are calling Democrats obstructionists considering the last 8 years and considering how they used obstruction to steal the Supreme Court seat that Obama was to appoint.
I think it's adorable they are calling Democrats obstructionists considering the last 8 years and considering how they used obstruction to steal the Supreme Court seat that Obama was to appoint.
You can make the argument of delaying the nomination for a supreme court justice in an election year and let the people decide. What argument can you make when the democrats fail to show for hearings because they don't like a nominee? I don't think the republicans liked too many of Obama's nominees either but they didn't act like democrats and skip out of hearings. They did their job.
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Democrats and progressives in general are whining fucking pussies.
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I think it's adorable you think you saved America btw
I think it's adorable they are calling Democrats obstructionists considering the last 8 years and considering how they used obstruction to steal the Supreme Court seat that Obama was to appoint.
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I never took osiris as awhinie ass liberal goof, but there he goes.
They gave obamao two really extreme corrupt activist supreme court justices.
They gave Bill Clinton his two. But no, they were all bitchy because they didn't get
to take ownership of a liberal stupidass court "permanently" on obamao's way out the door.
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For many decades there was an unwritten rule in the senate not to have supreme court justices nominated and appointed during an election year. The reasoning is there would be an election later in the year and the people would decide the direction of the court. So for the republicans to not to have hearings on a supreme court justice in an election year is not anything new. It has a long precedent. What has no precedent are senators not showing up for confirmation hearings to try and stall confirmations of candidates they don't like. Fortunately the republicans control the senate and were able to put a stop to their shenanigans and had the vote without the AWOL democratic senators.
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