On confirming Gabbard and Kennedy Jr., the right gives up - The Washington Post

"Perhaps no day epitomizes conservatives' willingness to negotiate away their principles for Trump like this one..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/04/gabbard-kennedy-right-gives-up/ 

New revelations complicate the Gabbard, RFK Jr. confirmation fights

Asked if she was aware of the threats made by Hassoun, Gabbard said under oath, "I was not and had not heard that until today." It was against this backdrop that the Post reported: 

"[D]ocuments reviewed by The Washington Post indicate that Gabbard was aware of Hassoun's threats soon after she returned from her controversial visit to the country in January 2017. The documents, which appear within a larger trove from Gabbard's former congressional office, show that Hassoun's comments on suicide bombers were flagged as problematic by one of her aides in early 2017 and were identified in an external vetting process as the likeliest source of negative publicity about the trip."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-revelations-complicate-gabbard-rfk-jr-confirmation-fights-rcna190496

 

WATCH: 'Frankly, you frighten people,' Sen. Whitehouse tells RFK Jr. in confirmation hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OhJ2CxAKvE

WATCH: Sen. Whitehouse questions Zeldin about climate change in confirmation hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKchNS7J0xM

WATCH: Sen. Sanders asks Zeldin whether he considers climate change an urgent threat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1BqRD_jmWE

WATCH: Sen. Schiff questions Zeldin about lead contamination in confirmation hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMvXjSVYJ0

Sen. Blumenthal SHOCKED That Vought Thinks Trump Is ABOVE The Law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpMN8-t_BN8

Trump demands Senate allow him to circumvent hearings to appoint cabinet

Trump urges support from Rick Scott, John Thune and John Cornyn for 'recess appointments' while US Senate is paused…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/11/trump-senate-administration-hearings

Trump Has Put a Record Number of Dangerous Men on the Bench -- The Daily Beast

President Donald Trump entered office with a record 120 judicial vacancies, largely due to the unprecedented stonewalling of President Obama's nominees by the Republican-led Senate. Already, he has nominated 58 individuals (81 percent male and 91 percent white, by the way) to fill these life-tenure positions. And until very recently, it looked like all would sail through the process without a fight; indeed, not a single Republican had voted against a single judicial nominee. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-put-a-record-number-of-dangerous-men-on-the-bench

Elizabeth Warren Tells Senators A Liar Shouldn't Be Treasury Secretary (The Huffington Post)

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) offered Republicans the simplest of reasons to vote against Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin on Friday — he lied. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-sherrod-brown-steve-mnuchin-a-liar_us_589e1dfce4b03df370d6484e?

Million-name petition urges Senate to deny Jeff Sessions confirmation (the guardian)

Trump's pick for attorney general 'entirely unfit' say activists, with NAACP president calling Alabama senator's nomination 'deeply troubling' ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/jeff-sessions-petition-senate-attorney-general-confirmation?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

Editorial: Quashing dissent isn't just a Trump thing, it's the new Republican way (The Mercury News)

'Red-carding' the progressive senator for reading a relevant letter written by the late Coretta Scott King has to further alarm women and minorities about Jeff Sessions' nomination ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/08/editorial-quashing-dissent-isnt-just-a-trump-thing-its-the-new-republican-way/

Rigged system: GOP rewrites rules to rush scandal-plagued elites into Trump cabinet (ThinkProgress.org)

The Senate's fake populists give insiders special treatment. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/rigged-system-gop-rewrites-rules-to-rush-scandal-plagued-elites-into-trump-cabinet-2319a103b9f0#.k1ioj6he0

The Huffington Post: Republicans Find It Inconceivable Trump Nominees May Lie To Them

A day after President Donald Trump delivered yet another denunciation of NATO, calling it obsolete and putting himself at odds with most of the GOP, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sat down with Trump's nominee for secretary of state, former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-trump-nominees-truth-lies_us_587fad94e4b0cf0ae881692c?

CBS News: Tom Price, Steve Mnuchin nominations blocked by Democratic boycott

Democrats say they need more information about both nominees before they can move forward with votes ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-price-steve-mnuchin-nominations-blocked-by-democratic-boycott/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

Vox: Republican senators are criticizing Trump’s immigration order but not doing anything about it

They have maximum leverage now ...
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/30/14440490/republicans-criticize-refugee-ban

Business Insider: Schumer: Democrats will seek to delay votes on Trump Cabinet nominees in response to executive order

Sen. Chuck Schumer on NBC. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Monday that Democrats were hoping to delay votes on President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks in protest of his Friday executive order barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. The New York Democrat said on the "Today" show that what he described as Trump's "appalling" order would encourage lone-wolf-style attacks in America, and he pledged that Democrats would introduce legislation later to repeal the ban. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/schumer-democrats-delay-votes-on-trump-cabinet-nominees-executive-order-immigration-2017-1

Defying irony, Senate GOP complains... (MSNBC)

Senate Republicans, ignoring their own tactics, are whining bitterly about Democratic obstructionism -- even as Dems try to be accommodating. ...
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/defying-irony-senate-gop-complains-bitterly-about-obstructionism

Sen. Orrin Hatch: craven pathological liar or amnesiac?

In his opening statement during Tuesday morning's Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services nominee Rep. Tom Price, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch demonstrated a remarkable degree of selective memory. Or maybe he's a victim of amnesia....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1624447

3 Critical Questions Tom Price Didn’t Answer at the Health and Human Services Hearing (WIRED)

These are the important points to consider when Price faces his formal confirmation hearing on January 24. ...
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/3-critical-questions-tom-price-didnt-answer-health-human-services-hearing/