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Of all the hearings in the senate so far, these have been the worst.
Anybody else following these? (link to general summary of issue)
Mnuchin is Trump's nominee for treasury (which honestly makes me think fond thoughts about George W Bush's administration) and Tom Price is his nominee for health and human services.
Mnuchin has apparently outright lied to the committee about illegal robo-signing foreclosure practices at OneWest bank... and given his past & current business ties this is even more of a "fox guarding the hen house" situation than it usually is.
Price's corruption & conflict of interest is even more blatant and troubling: he openly lied to the committee about trading stock in a healthcare company based on an insider tip from another congressman, in a private sale not open to the general public.
the "end run" is that Democrats had been refusing to vote on either guy until they at least came clean to the committee, and existing rules require a quorom including at least one member of the other party in a committee before voting on a nominee, but senate Republicans just said "fuck that, 'rules' are for losers" and voted to ram each Of these LIARS through.
sounds like there is some Senate GOP opposition to DeVos, meaning she may not be confirmed in a full senate vote, but not to these two clowns. awful.
if it came down to straight party voting, every Trump candidate would be approved (GOP controls senate 52-48). if two GOP senators switch votes, then Pence is the tiebreaker, so realistically the Democrats need three GOP senators to break ranks in order to win a vote. and that's assuming the Democrats can stick together, and you don't lose DINOs like Joe Manchin.
Anybody else following these? (link to general summary of issue)
Mnuchin is Trump's nominee for treasury (which honestly makes me think fond thoughts about George W Bush's administration) and Tom Price is his nominee for health and human services.
Mnuchin has apparently outright lied to the committee about illegal robo-signing foreclosure practices at OneWest bank... and given his past & current business ties this is even more of a "fox guarding the hen house" situation than it usually is.
Price's corruption & conflict of interest is even more blatant and troubling: he openly lied to the committee about trading stock in a healthcare company based on an insider tip from another congressman, in a private sale not open to the general public.
Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company?s officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
The Georgia Republican tapped by President Donald Trump to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services testified in his Senate confirmation hearings on Jan. 18 and 24 that the discounted shares he bought in Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd. , an Australian medical biotechnology company, ?were available to every single individual that was an investor at the time.?
In fact, the cabinet nominee was one of fewer than 20 U.S. investors who were invited last year to buy discounted shares of the company?an opportunity that, for Mr. Price, arose from an invitation from a company director and fellow congressmen.
(link from DailyKos, but the WSJ has reported the same thing)The Georgia Republican tapped by President Donald Trump to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services testified in his Senate confirmation hearings on Jan. 18 and 24 that the discounted shares he bought in Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd. , an Australian medical biotechnology company, ?were available to every single individual that was an investor at the time.?
In fact, the cabinet nominee was one of fewer than 20 U.S. investors who were invited last year to buy discounted shares of the company?an opportunity that, for Mr. Price, arose from an invitation from a company director and fellow congressmen.
the "end run" is that Democrats had been refusing to vote on either guy until they at least came clean to the committee, and existing rules require a quorom including at least one member of the other party in a committee before voting on a nominee, but senate Republicans just said "fuck that, 'rules' are for losers" and voted to ram each Of these LIARS through.
sounds like there is some Senate GOP opposition to DeVos, meaning she may not be confirmed in a full senate vote, but not to these two clowns. awful.
if it came down to straight party voting, every Trump candidate would be approved (GOP controls senate 52-48). if two GOP senators switch votes, then Pence is the tiebreaker, so realistically the Democrats need three GOP senators to break ranks in order to win a vote. and that's assuming the Democrats can stick together, and you don't lose DINOs like Joe Manchin.
