Gillibrand leads in no votes against Trumps nominees
Source: Democratic Chronicle
New York’s junior senator so far has opposed more nominees than any other senator, voting to confirm only three out of 25, according to a USA TODAY analysis of votes compiled by GovTrack. That’s one more “no” vote than several of the chamber’s most liberal members.
Gillibrand, who is in New York this week during the Senate’s spring recess, said she evaluates nominees on their individual merits, but many fell short.
“For many of them, I found them to be either unqualified or so far outside my world view and what I think is important and my view of morality that I had to vote against them,” she said in an interview.
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The vote against Mattis brought Gillibrand to 22 “no” votes, putting her one ahead of the chamber’s most progressive members — independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Cory Booker of New Jersey — in terms of opposition.
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