Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees

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Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees
By Peter Schroeder - 01/31/17 10:29 AM EST

Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two President Trump’s more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration.
 
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department. The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join Trump’s Cabinet.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317076-dems-boycott-confirmation-votes-for-trump-nominees

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Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees
By Peter Schroeder - 01/31/17 10:29 AM EST

Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two President Trump’s more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration.
 
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department. The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join Trump’s Cabinet.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317076-dems-boycott-confirmation-votes-for-trump-nominees

If that's the way it's going to be, can't the Turtle recess the Senate, and Trump can recess appointment his Cabinet picks and SC nominee? I understand that's only a temporary fix, though.

[ABX]

So they abstain from the vote...

Yea.. that will accomplish something.. /snark.

[rangerrebew]

Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees
By Peter Schroeder - 01/31/17 10:29 AM EST
 
Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two of President Trump’s more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration.
 
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department. The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join Trump’s Cabinet.
 
Republicans expressed outrage at the move, while Democrats gathered outside the Senate Finance Committee hearing room to outline their gripes with the selections.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317076-dems-boycott-confirmation-votes-for-trump-nominees

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

So they abstain from the vote...

Yea.. that will accomplish something.. /snark.

Didn't see it in the article, but I suspect without them they don't have a quorum.

I guess since there's no one to run them, those departments will have to be shut down in the meantime.

[txradioguy]

Turtle needs to make a point of order that if you boycotted a committee vote on one of the nominees...you are exempt from any attempt at a filibuster when the full Senate votes.

Find any way he can with the arcane Senate rules to prevent the Libs from getting their numbers together to do this in the future.

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Republicans recently did something similar in Delaware for one of their cabinet picks.  With 10 R's and 10 D's, as long as they rotate one Senator to not attend each vote, there won't be a tie that would allow the lieutenant governor (a Dem) to vote, and the Dems don't have a majority.

[Wingnut]

Republicans recently did something similar in Delaware for one of their cabinet picks.  With 10 R's and 10 D's, as long as they rotate one Senator to not attend each vote, there won't be a tie that would allow the lieutenant governor (a Dem) to vote, and the Dems don't have a majority.

Wisconsin Rats did the same thing a few years back.  Bolted across the border to The Clocktower Inn in Rockford IL and spent a week.

@Lando Lincoln @Once-Ler

[Sanguine]

Turtle needs to make a point of order that if you boycotted a committee vote on one of the nominees...you are exempt from any attempt at a filibuster when the full Senate votes.

Find any way he can with the arcane Senate rules to prevent the Libs from getting their numbers together to do this in the future.

Yeah, and I'm holding my breath for McConnell to do the right thing. 

[txradioguy]

Yeah, and I'm holding my breath for McConnell to do the right thing.

You and me both.  He only seems to invoke Roberts Rules when it helps Democrats.

[Suppressed]

Wisconsin Rats did the same thing a few years back.  Bolted across the border to The Clocktower Inn in Rockford IL and spent a week.

Oh, yeah...I remember that!

I think the Delaware senator was in Maryland.

[txradioguy]

Wisconsin Rats did the same thing a few years back.  Bolted across the border to The Clocktower Inn in Rockford IL and spent a week.

@Lando Lincoln @Once-Ler

Dems in Texas did the same thing...they were found by Texas DPS officers hanging out in a diner in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

[Wingnut]

Oh, yeah...I remember that!

I think the Delaware senator was in Maryland.

Dems in Texas did the same thing...they were found by Texas DPS officers hanging out in a diner in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

The chicken bleeps are so original.  It's a wonder they can breed without the use of artificial insemination and directions printed on the straw so they don't drink out of it.

[txradioguy]

The chicken bleeps are so original.  It's a wonder they can breed without the use of artificial insemination and directions printed on the straw so they don't drink out of it.

For most of them it's good that breathing is an automatic function.

[DCPatriot]

Didn't see it in the article, but I suspect without them they don't have a quorum.

I guess since there's no one to run them, those departments will have to be shut down in the meantime.

Yep...turn-about is fair play.   Blame the Democrats for the government/departmental shut-downs.   

[Night Hides Not]

Wisconsin Rats did the same thing a few years back.  Bolted across the border to The Clocktower Inn in Rockford IL and spent a week.

@Lando Lincoln @Once-Ler

Democrat legislators in Texas also have a history of fleeing the state to avoid a quorum.

[Night Hides Not]

Dems in Texas did the same thing...they were found by Texas DPS officers hanging out in a diner in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Glad you beat me to it, I couldn't remember the name of the town...Ardmore. lol

If Trump pushes them hard enough, they may flee to Havana, and never be heard from again.

[txradioguy]

Glad you beat me to it, I couldn't remember the name of the town...Ardmore. lol

If Trump pushes them hard enough, they may flee to Havana, and never be heard from again.

I only remember that it was Ardmore cause that's where my family is from and I spent my summers there as a kid.

[Applewood]

Like little children.   

One of these days we will get people in Washington who are actually all grown up. 

[musiclady]

Yeah, and I'm holding my breath for McConnell to do the right thing.

Prepare to turn blue.

[Sanguine]

Prepare to turn blue.

Too late: 

[musiclady]

Too late: 

LOL!

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Wisconsin Rats did the same thing a few years back.  Bolted across the border to The Clocktower Inn in Rockford IL and spent a week.

@Lando Lincoln @Once-Ler

This is how rats behave when they are out of power.

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133847336/wis-democratic-lawmakers-flee-to-prevent-vote

That was in 2011...one month after Governor Walker was sworn in.  The rats could not recognize reality because of the nonstop ranting and raving of their minions.  In the end the rats won next to nothing for their efforts.  The state union collective bargaining reforms that Walker wanted were passed and Walker has since won a state recall and a reelection.

Governor Walker rode a wave election in 2010 that gave the GOP 4 seats in the State Senate to give them a majority of 19 out of 33 seats.  the rats won back 2 State Senate seats due to a recall, still giving the GOP a 17-16 majority.  Emboldened by their "success" the rats would go on to launch several more State Senate recalls finally taking control of the State Senate with a 17 to 16 majority on July 17th 2012...only to lose the majority in the Nov 2012 elections again 17-16.  In 2014 the GOP added 2 more seats and 1 more in 2016 to give them a 20 to 13 majority today.

At that time in 2011 the GOP controlled 58 out of 99 in our State Assembly (what most states call their State House) in 2012 the GOP added 2 seats to 60.  In 2014 the GOP added 3 seats to 63 and last November the GOP added one more.

rat tantrums often translate into GOP gains.

[Bigun]

This is how rats behave when they are out of power.

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133847336/wis-democratic-lawmakers-flee-to-prevent-vote

That was in 2011...one month after Governor Walker was sworn in.  The rats could not recognize reality because of the nonstop ranting and raving of their minions.  In the end the rats won next to nothing for their efforts.  The state union collective bargaining reforms that Walker wanted were passed and Walker has since won a state recall and a reelection.

Governor Walker rode a wave election in 2010 that gave the GOP 4 seats in the State Senate to give them a majority of 19 out of 33 seats.  the rats won back 2 State Senate seats due to a recall, still giving the GOP a 17-16 majority.  Emboldened by their "success" the rats would go on to launch several more State Senate recalls finally taking control of the State Senate with a 17 to 16 majority on July 17th 2012...only to lose the majority in the Nov 2012 elections again 17-16.  In 2014 the GOP added 2 more seats and 1 more in 2016 to give them a 20 to 13 majority today.

At that time in 2011 the GOP controlled 58 out of 99 in our State Assembly (what most states call their State House) in 2012 the GOP added 2 seats to 60.  In 2014 the GOP added 3 seats to 63 and last November the GOP added one more.

rat tantrums often translate into GOP gains.

Rat's behave this way because when they no longer have any hold at all on the government teat, which is their lifeline, they have NOTHING to sell and their fundraising dries up!