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

[Ferguson97]

I could see Tanden run into issues from the right(democrats) and maybe Vilsack and Raimondo run into issues from the left( Sanders, Warren, Merkley maybe).

Tanden is infinitely more likely to run into issue with progressives than with moderates, given her prior conduct.

Luckily for her, we're talking about the Senate and not progressives.

Yeah, it's gonna be pretty funny when Rose Twitter loses its mind after Sanders votes for her.

[Ferguson97]

Hopefully the House sends the impeachment over to the Senate soon so that this dumpster fire of a cabinet can be held up.

Lol

[Ferguson97]

Yellen, Garland, Buttigieg shouldn’t have any problems getting confirmed... In fact most of these won’t.

Only ones I can see having trouble are the Defense Secretary who has eligibility concerns and the DOJ person who wrote that essay 25 years ago. And possibly Neera Tanden.

[Ferguson97]

NO votes:
Blackburn
Braun
Cruz
Ernst
Hagerty
Hawley
Lee
Marshall
Paul
Risch

So I take it we can assume these are people who will acquit Trump?

[Ferguson97]

So far, the nays are Merkley, Warren, Blumenthal, Cotton, Hawley, Collins, Cortez-Masto, Blackburn, and Sasse. Strange group there.

22 yeas so far with Sanders voting in the affirmative.

EDIT:

Lummus, Toomey, and Young are nays. It currently stands at 26-12.

EDIT (2):

Scott (FL), Duckworth, Baldwin, Young, and Rubio are added to the nays. It's 40-17 favoring yea.

EDIT (3):

New nays are Lee and Gillibrand. It's now 53-19.

Odd group of people, I wonder what their reasoning is.

[Ferguson97]

Cheney, Hawley, Gillibrand and Omar all voted against the waiver. When the worst people in both parties are against something...

Disappointed in Bowman.

What's your beef with Gilli?

[Ferguson97]

ICYMI:

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1352392594442121223

Question:

Is Harris supposed to swear in every cabinet member that got confirmed by the Senate ?

Other than the Chief Justice swearing in the President and the Speaker of the House being sworn in by the Dean and then swearing in everyone else, who swears in whom is a little ad hoc in the United States. Technically anybody with the ability to legally witness oaths can swear in any officeholder, even the President; LBJ was sworn in by a federal district judge in Dallas, Coolidge by his own father, a State of Vermont notary public.

Side question, what happens if the Dean is elected as Speaker?

[Ferguson97]

Who will have the most trouble getting confirmed? Tanden?

Tanden (and maybe also Raimondo) is probably going to have the most trouble.

I could see it being the case where Republicans are unilaterally opposed to Tanden and Manchin/Sinema/Tester potentially also being opposed to her. It might end up being a 50/50 split with Kamala needing to tiebreak. Kamala obviously wouldn't vote against Tanden's nomination.

I kinda want Bernie to sink her nomination as a revenge, but he's too nice and has far too much class to do that.

Revenge for what, tweeting too much?

[Ferguson97]

Why do people dislike Raimondo?

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1359548398257455107

[Ferguson97]

Bernie also isn't terminally online so I doubt he's even aware Neera has Twitter drama lol. He probably just knows her as a progressive from a think tank.

[Ferguson97]

Joe Manchin voted to confirm Jeff Sessions, Brett Kavanaugh, William Barr, and Mike Pompeo, but Neera Tanden's tweets were just too much for him.

[Ferguson97]

Go off King

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1363989112684961798

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1415361667114967042

[Ferguson97]

Disgraceful that Garcetti was even nominated, much less confirmed

I know very little about this guy, what beef do so many have with him?

[Ferguson97]

It'd been a while, almost 3 weeks. Was there another recess or is the Biden admin too tied up to focus on judicial confirmations?

Feinstein is out sick.