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

[AndyHogan14]

UPDATED SCHEDULE:
March 2
2:15pm • Raimondo (Senate Vote)
Rouse (Cloture) immediately following the Raimondo vote

March 3
10:00am • Becerra (Committee Vote; Finance)
10:00am • Tai (Committee Vote; Finance)
Possible/Expected Votes (not confirmed):
TBA • Rouse (Senate Vote)

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Non-Cabinet-Level
Gensler/Chopra (Banking Hearing, 3/2 at 10am)
Young (Budget Hearing, 3/2 at 11am)
Mallory/McCabe (Environment Hearing, 3/3 at 10am)
Trottenberg (Commerce Hearing, 3/3 at 10am)
Sherman/McKeon (Foreign Relations Hearing, 3/3 at 10am)
Adeyemo (Finance Committee Vote, 3/3 at 10am)
Kahl (Armed Services Hearing, 3/4 at 9:30am)
Turk (Energy Hearing, 3/4 at 10am)
Young/Miller (HSGAC Hearing, 3/4 at 10:15am)
Monaco (Judiciary Hearing, 3/9 at 9am)

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Confirmed
Blinken, Yellen, Austin, Vilsack, Buttigieg, Granholm, Cardona, McDonough, Mayorkas, Haines, Thomas-Greenfield

Awaiting Full Senate Vote
Raimondo (3/2), Fudge (TBA), Walsh (TBA), Cardona (TBA), Rouse Cloture; 3/2 Final; 3/3), Garland (TBA), Regan (TBA), Guzman (TBA)

Awaiting Committee Vote
Haaland (TBA), Becerra (3/3; Finance), Tai (3/3), Becerra (TBA; HELP), Tanden (TBA; HSGAC), Tanden (TBA; Budget)

Awaiting Committee Hearing
None

Committee Hearings Not Yet Scheduled
Lander

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Today, the Senate confirmed Cardona as Education Secretary and invoked cloture to advance the nomination of Raimondo to be Commerce Secretary. Also, Merrick Garland was reported out of committee with a 15-7 vote. Tomorrow, there will be a final vote on the Raimondo nomination with a cloture vote on Rouse following. This morning, Schumer said that after Rouse is confirmed, the Senate will shift focus to the American Rescue Plan so we may not get any more confirmation votes this week.

NOTE: I have added in my best guesses for some of the full Senate cloture/final votes. They are in italics.

[Calthrina950]

The Senate Judiciary Committee votes 15-7 to send the nomination of Merrick Garland to be the next attorney general to the full Senate. Republican Senators Cotton, Kennedy, Lee, Blackburn, Hawley, Sasse and Cruz voted “No.”

Simply inexplicable on republicans' part how they can vote no on Garland, who is possibly the least controversial and most qualified of all of Biden's nominees, and arguably the most qualified AG nominee ever. These clowns voted yes on Barr. Just remember this the next time anyone suggests we should deal with the likes of Cotton, Hawley, Cruz, Blackburn, etc in good faith.

Hawley has voted against every single Biden nominee, while Lee and Cruz have only voted for one each, to my knowledge. So it's not surprising to see them continuing this pattern of behavior. Nominations in all fields have become much more partisan than they used to be. Not one of Biden's nominees has received a unanimous confirmation thus far.

Lee actually voted in favor of Vilsack, Buttigieg, McDonough and Thomas-Greenfield. On the Republican side only Josh Hawley opposed all nominees, Cruz voted only for Austin and Rick Scott only voted for Haines and Austin. Other senators voted in favor for at least 3 nominees

I see. I haven't been following the details of all the nominations, and it's difficult to keep track of them, given how many there are. So I'm glad to see that the picture isn't as dark as I believed, although it still isn't the most optimistic one, and Hawley's blind opposition to all Biden nominees is clearly a deliberate move on his part, in pursuit of his vain presidential ambitions.

[AndyHogan14]

Voting has begun on the Raimondo nomination.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Raimondo sucks but she's going to be easily confirmed.

[Tender Branson]

Raimondo confirmed.

[AndyHogan14]

Raimondo was easily confirmed 84-15. A majority of the Republican Conference, like yesterday when cloture was voted on, sided with the Democrats to confirm the new Commerce Secretary. 15 Republicans voted no and there was one not voting. Cloture vote on Rouse is happening now.

Democratic Nays (0):
None

Republican Nays (15):
Shelby (AL)
Tuberville (AL)
Cotton (AR)
Rubio (FL)
Scott (FL)
Kennedy (LA)
Hawley (MO)
Sasse (NE)
Hoeven (ND)
Cramer (ND)
Scott (SC)
Hagerty (TN)
Cruz (TX)
Barrasso (WY)
Lummis (WY)

Not Voting (1):
Blackburn (TN)

[brucejoel99]

I imagine that Dan McKee's probably popping some champagne right about now.

[AndyHogan14]

Hawley voted AYE on Rouse!

[😥]

Hawley just voted in favor of limiting debate on Cecilia Rouse nomination

[President Johnson]

Cardona has been confirmed 64-33. All Democrats voted yea with 14 Republicans, 3 did not vote. The vote to invoke cloture on Raimondo is next.

Republican Yeas (14):
Murkowski (AK)
Rubio (FL)
Grassley (IA)
McConnell (KY)
Cassidy (LA)
Collins (ME)
Fischer (NE)
Burr (NC)
Tillis (NC)
Portman (OH)
Cornyn (TX)
Romney (UT)
Capito (WV)
Johnson (WI)

Democratic Nays (0):
None

Not Voting (3):
Moran (KS)
Blunt (MO)
Blackburn (TN)

I'm really surprised Mitch has voted for most (or all?) Biden nominees so far, even if a majority of his caucus opposed the candidate. He also indicated to vote for Garland.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Hawley voted AYE on Rouse!

Hawley just voted in favor of limiting debate on Cecilia Rouse nomination

Rouse is probably going to be the first Biden nominee that Hawley votes to confirm.

Still, Josh Hawley is Josh Hawley. Anything's possible lol.

[AndyHogan14]

If the vote to invoke cloture today is any indication, Rouse could very well pass Austin in terms of highest vote total in the Senate (93). Cloture was just invoked 94-5. A vast majority of the Republican Conference voted yea and even Josh Hawley was among the yea votes. There were only five nays and there was one not voting. While it is not on the schedule, it seems likely that the final vote on Rouse will take place tomorrow.

Democratic Nays (0):
None

Republican Nays (5):
Tuberville (AL)
Cotton (AR)
Scott (FL)
Paul (KY)
Lummis (WY)

Not Voting (1):
Blackburn (TN)

[Horus]

I know nothing about Rouse but from her wiki she seems very capable, by the book and drama free. Even Hawley couldn't find a good reason to object.

[AndyHogan14]

Caught me by surprise...they are voting on Rouse now.

[AndyHogan14]

Lummis switched her vote from earlier and is now a yea, so Rouse is certainly on track to have the largest affirmative vote total so far.

[AndyHogan14]

Cecilia Rouse has been confirmed with the largest affirmative vote so far (95-4) and I don't see anyone else breaking her vote total. For goodness sake, even HAWLEY voted in favor...I wonder why they couldn't get the other four and just confirm her with unanimous consent. Anyway, that's probably it for confirmations with the rest of the week focusing on the COVID-19 relief package. It's too bad that they couldn't have squeezed Garland in after he cleared committee on Monday. Oh well.

Democratic Nays (0):
None

Republican Nays (4):
Tuberville (AL)
Cotton (AR)
Scott (FL)
Paul (KY)

Not Voting (1):
Blackburn (TN)

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1366896297144446980?s=21

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1366896297144446980?s=21

Called it

[Lambsbread]

Nice! Glad this bs is finally over so we can focus our energy on real issues.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Um, I'm on C-SPAN2 and they still haven't gaveled out Rouse's nomination. What's going on? Did they forget lol?

[KaiserDave]

Tanden is gone! 🦀🦀🦀

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

She neera-ly made it, but controversies sank her nomination.

[South Dakota Democrat]

She neera-ly made it, but controversies sank her nomination.

I see what you did there.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I was always pretty ambivalent on Tanden's nomination but I do feel kind of frustrated that mean tweets suddenly matters to the Republican Party. It seems that they "hear about" tweets more than they let on when Trump was President.

[Pyro]

Wonder if Biden will choose Gene Sperling for OMB.