2020ers voting on Trump Cabinet confirmations megathread

[Mr. Morden]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes to send Haley UN Ambassador nomination to the Senate floor, and most Dems (including Booker) join the Republicans to vote in favor:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315863-haley-breezes-through-senate-panel

[houseonaboat]

Ben Carson made it out of committee unanimously including getting Brown and Warren's votes.

[mvd10]

Ben Carson made it out of committee unanimously including getting Brown and Warren's votes.

How? I thought Carson's inexperience and his hardcore conservative stances would make him hard to confirm.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Ben Carson made it out of committee unanimously including getting Brown and Warren's votes.

How? I thought Carson's inexperience and his hardcore conservative stances would make him hard to confirm.

The Senators are looking forward to four years of trolling him after he's confirmed.

[Mr. Morden]

Haley confirmed by the full Senate, with only four Senators voting no:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-congress-haley-idUKKBN1582G3?il=0

Sanders was one of the four “no” votes.  Booker, Brown, Harris, Klobuchar, and Warren all voted for confirmation.

[Mr. Morden]

Gillibrand says she'll vote against confirmation on DeVos:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315946-dem-senator-i-will-vote-against-devos-for-education-secretary

[Mr. Morden]

Warren defends her vote for Carson:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/elizabeth-warren-ben-carson-234185

[Mr. Morden]

Warren says she’ll vote against DeVos:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/01/27/warren-says-she-vote-against-trump-education-pick/YqUmIHPzO0uEnW8JF8QcbO/story.html

Franken predicts that no Democrats will vote to confirm DeVos:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/27/sen-franken-no-democrat-will-vote-for-betsy-devos-as-education-secretary-and-were-seeking-republicans-to-oppose-her/

[SCNCmod]

Any Republican Senator from a Rural State should definitely vote against Devos (although I know they won't).... hopefully there are 2 that will!

[Mr. Morden]

Klobuchar's voted to confirm more of Trump's nominees than any other 2020 Dem. Senators so far, but she comments on the ones she's set to vote against in this tweet:

https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/825184483678748673

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[Mr. Morden]

All the 2020ers (Booker, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, etc.) voted against the Tillerson cloture motion.  The vote on the underlying confirmation itself will come later, but I assume they're all no on that as well.

[Mr. Morden]

Rick Perry approved in committee by 16-7, and Sanders was one of the no votes:

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/826441653233840129

[Mr. Morden]

Oh, and they voted 16-6 (I guess someone abstained?) to approve Zinke, and Sanders was again one of the no's:

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/826441153063051265

[The Other Castro]

The boycott of Mnuchin was organized by Sherrod Brown.

[Mr. Morden]

DeVos approved in committee on a party line vote.  Both Sanders and Warren are on that committee, so both voted no.

[Mr. Morden]

The Senate has approved Elaine Chao as Secretary of Transportation.  Voting is going on right now, and the current vote is 85-5, with Harris and Klobuchar among the yes votes, while Gillibrand, Sanders, and Warren are among the no votes.

But voting is still underway, and I don't think Booker has showed up yet.

[Mr. Morden]

Booker voted no on Chao as well.  Current vote is 90-6, with two thirds of the 6 no's being prospective 2020 presidential candidates (Booker, Gillibrand, Sanders, Warren).

[Mr. Morden]

Judiciary Committee approves Sessions on a party line vote, meaning that Klobuchar voted against.

[Mr. Morden]

Tillerson’s been confirmed by the Senate, with just a handful of Dems crossing over to support him.  All potential 2020ers (e.g., Booker, Brown, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren) voted against confirmation.

[Mr. Morden]

All the Dems voted against DeVos.  Shulkin got approved in the Veterans Affairs committee 15-0, meaning that both Brown and Sanders voted in favor:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/david-shulkin-trump-va-secretary-senate-panel-234742

[Mr. Morden]

McMahon confirmed as SBA administrator, with the vote being 81-19, so just over half the Democratic caucus voted to confirm.  Klobuchar was among the yes votes, while Booker, Brown, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, and Warren all voted no:

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[Mr. Morden]

Here's how they've all voted so far:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/31/us/politics/trump-cabinet-confirmation-votes.html?_r=0

[Mr. Morden]

Ross nomination:

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Brown and Klobuchar voted for confirmation, while Boooker, Gillibrand, Harris, Murphy, Sanders, and Warren all voted no.

Zinke nomination:

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Brown and Murphy voted for confirmation, while Booker, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Warren voted no.

Ben Carson cloture vote:

https://decisiondeskhq.com/vote-tracker/cloture-vote-on-dr-ben-carson-for-secretary-of-hud/

Brown voted yes, while Booker, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar, Murphy, Sanders, and Warren voted no.

Warren's no vote came despite the fact that she voted for Carson in committee.

[Mr. Morden]

A Warren aide tells the Boston Globe on background why she voted against Carson on the Senate floor after voting for him in committee:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/02/elizabeth-warren-reverses-field-donald-trump-pick-ben-carson/zTE5w7fU62IjmMvxPN6W4H/story.html

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Not sure why he’s talking on background.  Why doesn’t someone just ask Warren this question on the record?

[Mr. Morden]

*bump*

Haven't posted in this for a while, but here's the confirmation vote on Perdue for Agriculture:

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Only 11 no votes, and those 11 included Booker, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, and Warren.  I'm sure the overlap with the list of people thought to be considering a presidential run is purely coincidence.