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Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« on: January 18, 2017, 09:13:41 pm »
BY: Madeleine Weast   
January 18, 2017 3:06 pm

Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis was approved on Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Armed Services to serve as secretary of defense in Donald Trump’s administration.

Mattis sailed through the committee, which voted 26-1 for him to lead the Pentagon. Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) was the only member of the Senate panel to vote against the retired four-star general, who enjoys bipartisan support to head the Defense Department under President-elect Trump.

Gillibrand has previously said she would oppose confirming Mattis because he only retired from the Marine Corps in 2013, while federal law requires a seven-year break between military service and heading the Defense Department as a civilian.

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Re: Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2017, 09:15:18 pm »
Now comes the fun part.
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Re: Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2017, 09:15:35 pm »
Good!  Excellent in fact!
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Re: Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2017, 11:44:12 pm »
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Re: Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2017, 11:48:05 pm »
Gillibrand has previously said she would oppose confirming Mattis because he only retired from the Marine Corps in 2013, while federal law requires a seven-year break between military service and heading the Defense Department as a civilian.

Guessing no one told this professional stupid person that he got a waiver on this issue.
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Re: Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2017, 12:30:15 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 18, 2017, 11:48:05 pm
Gillibrand has previously said she would oppose confirming Mattis because he only retired from the Marine Corps in 2013, while federal law requires a seven-year break between military service and heading the Defense Department as a civilian.

Guessing no one told this professional stupid person that he got a waiver on this issue.


As a Representative, Gillibrand was something of a Blue Dog Dem. Then she was appointed to Hillary's vacant Senate seat, spent a day with Schumer and came out a raving leftist. If New York should start trending more Republican then watch her trend with it.
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Re: Mattis Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee to Be SecDef
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2017, 12:16:03 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 18, 2017, 11:48:05 pm
Gillibrand has previously said she would oppose confirming Mattis because he only retired from the Marine Corps in 2013, while federal law requires a seven-year break between military service and heading the Defense Department as a civilian.

Guessing no one told this professional stupid person that he got a waiver on this issue.

Meh, I can respect her reason. Don't like waivers - they smack too much of "The law is the law until it's not convenient." I'd respect it more if she has form as being equally "letter of the law" on people on her side of the aisle.
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