Biden Cabinet Confirmation Live Thread ***hearings, votes, etc.***

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The yellen dissenters:

NAYs ---15
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Cruz (R-TX)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Lee (R-UT)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Scott (R-FL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tuberville (R-AL)

Not Voting - 1
Rubio (R-FL)

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Tomorrow:

10 AM: Raimondo Hearing
11 AM: Business Meeting to approve Mayorkas at the committee level

I'll be watching these and will have commentary if merited.

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Mayorkas passes committee 7-5:

AYE:
Portman
Romney
Peters
Carper
Hassan
Sinema
Rosen

No:
Paul
Lankford
Scott (FL)
Hawley
Johnson

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Baring any major revelations, Biden will be the first President since Reagan to go undefeated in his first round of cabinet appointments.

Unless Hawley continues continues his stupid schtick(or Cruz or Paul for that matter), I would assume Buttigieg could get it for VA,maybe Raimondo? Whoever is in charge of the VA as well

Does the VP swear everyone in?

Huh?

OC Sock, mods please ban

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The full Senate vote for Mayorkas will take place tomorrow; his name has been added to the executive calendar for 1/27. With the committee vote on Buttigieg tomorrow, it also seems likely that he will get his full Senate vote on Thursday.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/executive_calendar/xcalv.pdf

The calendar is not a vote order, just a list of who is reported out of committee. No vote has actually been scheduled.

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Today, Morning: Granholm, Greenfield hearings
Today, Afternoon: McDonough Hearing

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Tomorrow: CLOTURE on Mayorkas
Monday: Final on Mayorkas

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Tomorrow, 10 AM:  Hearing to examine the nominations of Marcia Louise Fudge, of Ohio, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Cecilia Elena Rouse, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

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Do we have any idea when they might vote on an organizing resolution?

Probably never

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https://twitter.com/SenatePress/status/1354872393018310659?s=20

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https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1354852085037232132?s=20

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Committee Activity for Next Week:

Feb. 2, 10:30 AM: Vilsack Hearing
Feb. 2, Time TBA: McDonough Committee Vote
Feb. 3, 10:00 AM: Cardona Hearing
Feb. 3, 10:00 AM: Raimondo Committee Vote
Feb. 3, 2 PM: Regan Hearing
Feb. 4, 10 AM: Walsh Hearing

Possible: Committee Votes on Fudge, Rouse, Granholm, Greenfield

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

86-13 Yes/No for ButtiPete.

Don’t know who’s missing ...

Do you know who were the NOs?

Cruz (Texas)
Cotton (Ark.)
Marshall (Kansas)
Scott (Fla.)
Tuberville (Ala.)
Shelby (Ala.)
Hawley (Mo.)
Blackburn (Tenn.)
Rubio (Fla.)
Scott (S.C.)
Lankford (Okla.)
Hagerty (Tenn.)
Cassidy (La.)

https://twitter.com/chrisjohnson82/status/1356661718445924354

Not Voting - 1
Toomey (R-PA)

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Mayorkas Dissenters:

NAYs ---43
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Braun (R-IN)
Burr (R-NC)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)

Not Voting - 1
Toomey (R-PA)

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Vilsack is ready for floor action: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/vilsack-nomination-approved-senate-ag-465139

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https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1356708275350306818

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McConnell has said he won't consent to any floor votes while the Senate is considering the budget resolution or impeachment. (Yes, Schumer can file cloture, but the 30 hour clock on that pauses if the Senate debates something else unless there is UC to keep the clock running) So it will be some time before we see anyone else confirmed.

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McConnell has said he won't consent to any floor votes while the Senate is considering the budget resolution or impeachment. (Yes, Schumer can file cloture, but the 30 hour clock on that pauses if the Senate debates something else unless there is UC to keep the clock running) So it will be some time before we see anyone else confirmed.

Didn't Republicans significantly reduce that time while they were confirming judges?

The McConnell 2019 precedent doesn't apply to the Cabinet, Circuit Court, or Supreme Court. It's just for lower-level administration appointments and District Judges.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1358932142663888898

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https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1362871954022277125
Looks like Tanden's nomination is dead, barring some crossover GOP votes.

True R-WV at work

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Like I've previously pointed out, though, the man has never cast a deciding vote against the Democratic Party line over the course of his nearly 10 years in the Senate. That's just not changing now.

well this aged well. Any comment?

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Like I've previously pointed out, though, the man has never cast a deciding vote against the Democratic Party line over the course of his nearly 10 years in the Senate. That's just not changing now.

well this aged well. Any comment?

Well, last I checked, I missed the part where he's confirmed to be casting a deciding vote against the Democratic Party line by taking this stand, so my comment would be to f**king wait:

Remember guys, Manchin literally never votes against the party line when it matters, and it's stupid and naive to think that he will. I'm sure that he's only doing this because he knows there are loads of Republicans to pad the margin.

(This is sarcastic in case you can't tell)

Y'all, can we calm the f**k down for literally 5 seconds & just wait & see how this plays out a bit more. It's entirely possible that he's been told Tanden has at least 1 Republican vote (so, literally pick 1 of your Romneys, Murkowskis, Collins', etc.) & that this is therefore not a time where his vote actually matters. But thank you for your failed attempt at a burn, though, very cool!

Maybe (I highly doubt it), but I do note that Manchin is announcing this ahead of any R publicly saying they're a yes.

The problem with Manchin is that we should not have to get down on our knees and beg Murkowski (here) or the Budget Committee (in the case of the budget amendments that he provided deciding votes for) to cover for his misbehavior. He should know enough to provide the desired result himself.

I'm honestly sick and tired of treating someone who voted with Trump more often than not, voted for 80% of his judges, and already has or plans to cast several deciding votes against the dems in this congress, as a Democrat. We need to kick him out of the caucus.

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Like I've previously pointed out, though, the man has never cast a deciding vote against the Democratic Party line over the course of his nearly 10 years in the Senate. That's just not changing now.

well this aged well. Any comment?

Well, last I checked, I missed the part where he's confirmed to be casting a deciding vote against the Democratic Party line by taking this stand, so my comment would be to f**king wait:

Remember guys, Manchin literally never votes against the party line when it matters, and it's stupid and naive to think that he will. I'm sure that he's only doing this because he knows there are loads of Republicans to pad the margin.

(This is sarcastic in case you can't tell)

Y'all, can we calm the f**k down for literally 5 seconds & just wait & see how this plays out a bit more. It's entirely possible that he's been told Tanden has at least 1 Republican vote (so, literally pick 1 of your Romneys, Murkowskis, Collins', etc.) & that this is therefore not a time where his vote actually matters. But thank you for your failed attempt at a burn, though, very cool!

Maybe (I highly doubt it), but I do note that Manchin is announcing this ahead of any R publicly saying they're a yes.

The problem with Manchin is that we should not have to get down on our knees and beg Murkowski (here) or the Budget Committee (in the case of the budget amendments that he provided deciding votes for) to cover for his misbehavior. He should know enough to provide the desired result himself.

I'm honestly sick and tired of treating someone who voted with Trump more often than not, voted for 80% of his judges, and already has or plans to cast several deciding votes against the dems in this congress, as a Democrat. We need to kick him out of the caucus.

I was following until the last paragraph. How in God's name would deliberately making McConnell Majority Leader again just to teach Manchin a lesson or whatever be preferable to the current situation?

This Manchin majority simply isn't worth it. The biden nominees that have been confirmed would have been confirmed with or without his support, and he continually shows a lukewarm at best attitude toward the democratic agenda, including on covid related matters. At least with McConnell we'd know for sure that dem wins would be few, instead of getting all this false hope from closeted republican Joe Manchin.

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Every new administration has a nominee that goes down in flames. Trump had the Carls Jr. guy. Obama had Judd Gregg. Bush had Linda Chavez.

It happens.

Gregg withdrew over unsolvable differences with the administration: https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/12/gregg.nomination/index.html

No senator aside from himself ultimately doomed his nomination.

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I'm honestly sick and tired of treating someone who voted with Trump more often than not, voted for 80% of his judges, and already has or plans to cast several deciding votes against the dems in this congress, as a Democrat. We need to kick him out of the caucus.

Sounds like a good way to ensure McConnell can block Covid relief and prevent Breyer from retiring.

Oh, haven't you heard!? Joe Manchin's just itching to kill the COVID relief stimulus package (that no legitimate Republican even supports) even though he's already come out in support of it, AND then he's gonna personally shoot Justice Breyer with his own NRA-provided shotgun just to open up his seat & save it for when McConnell returns to the majority leadership. Of course, even though Manchin is obviously a secret Republican at heart, he's doing all of this without switching parties & actually putting McConnell in charge so he can do all of these things - & more - that Manchin has made very clear in public that he doesn't actually wanna do. It almost makes TOO MUCH sense!!

Well if we can't kick him out, then we need to take away his committee chairmanship. This treachery should not go unpunished.