Will Dems Throw a Real Fit This Week?
by BooMan
Sun Jan 8th, 2017 at 09:34:42 AM EST
This week, we’ll begin the contentious process of holding hearings on President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. This would be an unusually charged political environment based on the identities of Trump’s picks alone, but it will be even more so because the transition team has simply failed to line up all their ducks in a row. Most of their nominees have not completed their vetting process by the FBI and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), or even come close.
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The Democrats are ready to pounce, and they’re leading with Elizabeth Warren who is demanding a delay in all confirmation hearings until the ethics reviews are completed. Other leaders, like Sens. Patty Murray and Dick Durbin echoed that sentiment, and even usually mild-mannered Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut was reading from the same hymnbook.
The Democrats can actually exercise some delaying tactics. To use the example of the Judiciary Committee, at least two members of the minority must be present at a hearing for it the have a quorum to conduct business, and “At the request of any member, or by action of the Chairman, a bill, matter, or nomination on the agenda of the Committee may be held over until the next meeting of the Committee or for one week, whichever occurs later.”
And that’s assuming that hearings are allowed at all. According to Rule 26 of the Senate, the Democrats do not have to consent to hearings occurring on a given day if they don’t want to, although this would apply to all hearings, and it would have to be revisited every day.
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I wonder if....never mind.
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siblings' kids are in their late 20 and early 30s and I worry about them a lot. they are professionals w/college degrees but I still wonder how much they get it... don't see them very often to chat about that stuff. When they do have serious questions about politics they come to me to see what I have to say about it knowing that my advanced degree is in polisci.
I am so numbed by this that I have to force myself to get on with daily chores, glad I am unemployed for a few more weeks, I don't know if I could be the reliable employee I normally am.
