GOP senator: DeVos 'has not yet earned my full support'
Source: The Hill
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is still undecided on whether shell support President Trumps Education secretary pick, Betsy DeVos, when her nomination comes up for a floor vote.
During Tuesdays executive session of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, DeVos was approved 12-11, along party lines. Her nomination will now go to the Senate floor for full consideration, though a date for a vote on the controversial pick has yet be set.
While she voted to advance DeVos's nomination out of the committee, Murkowski said she remains on the fence going forward.
Do note that she has not yet earned my full support, Murkowski said at Tuesdays session. I would not advise yet that she count on my vote."
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317122-gop-senator-on-devos-she-has-not-yet-earned-my-full-support
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)She wants something for Alaska in exchange for her vote.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)had she voted with the Democrats - it would have been 12/11 AGAINST recommending. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-education-secretary-nomination_us_588f77bbe4b02772c4e80681 She alone had the ability to swing the vote! Had Collins, who made a similar statement voted no, it would have been 13/10 AGAINST confirming.
I suspect that this might be like the many brave Democrats who refused to filibuster Alito, but voted against him --- when the only way to stop him was the filibuster vote.
The committee vote is suppose to be a vote that is designed to inform the rest of the Senate by those with the experience and background on those issues and who were part of the hearings. I suspect these comments are because they KNEW she should not be confirmed and they will point to these "brave" comments.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,043 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)has much less support in sparsely populated areas. Maybe it's not popular with her constituents.
harun
(11,348 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts).
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Send out a couple of Rs who "have questions or concerns" right before a vote is to be taken, safe in the knowledge that once it's time to vote, they will be trolloped out yet again to proclaim, "I had my doubts, but after talking to the nominee/president/other RW shill I am fully on board."
Freddie
(9,273 posts)Make a lot of noise that sounds reasonable and vote for the slime anyway. Or make gestures of "moderation" like Pat Toomey and his faux background checks bill. Toomey is a master of this slick maneuver.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)tavernier
(12,400 posts)that she actually cares about our schools and children.
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)The poor can slave in some mine in some mountain.
old guy
(3,283 posts)They are both repubs. Of course she will vote for her. This bipartisan baloney from the white wingers is really tiresome.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)it's like republicans are paying back all their bushcheneyrove gang old school people.
Republicans hand a list of old generals, judges and relatives of war criminals to trumps group and couple months later they're BFs with trump and he has never worked a single day with them.