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

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Cotton says he will oppose the Waiver required for Austin, not because of anything to do with Austin himself, but on the principle of the waiver itself. Also says he regrets voting for the Mattis Waiver.

Cotton is wrong as usual.

Hopefully Austin is saved and we're not stuck with Flournoy, that would be a disaster.

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Austin has been approved by the Armed Services Committee and is ready for floor action once the waiver passes.

Excellent.

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Will be interesting to see the final vote on the waiver. Likely a mix of the most partisan Republicans and extremely by the book pro overregulation Dems.

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

Disappointed in Bowman.

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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?

Her shift on gun rights and her attitude during the primary debates.

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I think Sanders voted for the waiver because Austin is less hawkish than potential replacements. Who knows, if his nomination failed, Biden may have ended up with Flournoy. I'm glad she wasn't picked due to ties to the defense industry and her hawkishness. Sanders for sure knew that and Austin was clearly the better alternative.

Bernie the pragmatist.

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Who will have the most trouble getting confirmed? Tanden?

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HRC used to be a good organization, what the hell happened? Paul's line of questioning is insensitive perhaps but he is not "attacking trans kids" nor is he wrong.

While the GOP is obviously far worse in this regard, both parties are heading down a path of feelings over science. That's bad news.

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I don't have the answer, but my hot take is that men and women as sports categories is fast becoming antiquated and that we should find some sort of objective measure of athletic capacity and divide the categories based on such a measurement. But yeah, Cardona will be confirmed easily is my prediction, probably won't even need Kamala's vote.

Women have no chance of competing with men in sports. Men are far, far superior in almost every single sport. Women deserve the right to competition through sport so there needs to be two separate categories.

I'm going to be real... you sound like someone with 0 knowledge about sports if you'd even suggest anything like this.

Billiards, bowling and chess should be coed. Beyond that, you're correct.

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Send Rahm to Italy or Poland.

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Manchin certainly knows how to pick his battles, you listening Kyrsten?

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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.

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So I guess, the final vote for Haaland will be 52-53/47-48.

Why is she controversial ?

Because she’s a Native American ?!?

She's arguably his most progressive nominee.