Trump republicanism in action. Hatch pushes nominees through committee on republican votes ALONE

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The Senate Finance Committee advanced a pair of Trump’s nominees with only Republican members present — Steven Mnuchin to head the Treasury Department, and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as secretary of Health and Human Services.

By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee’s standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.

“It’s just another way of roughing up the president’s nominees,” said committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “They have been treated fairly. We have not been treated fairly.”

Republicans made the unusual move after Democrats refused to attend a vote on the nominees for two days running, arguing the pair had made misleading statements to lawmakers that needed to be rectified.

The nominees now head to the Senate floor, as partisan tensions over filling out Trump’s White House continued to intensify.

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[dalton99a]

1. "We have not been treated fairly" - He's talking like Trump.

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4. they're operating in an alternate universe

...one where they didn't spend nine years obstructing Pres. Obama and his agenda.

Hatch is a miserable liar.

[bdamomma]

11. they are delusional

treated fairl??? what BS is that, oh wait that is how this SOB got in. Was Blackmailing was used to enforce don the con's agenda?

[justiceischeap]

2. Can we impeach the lot of them? nt

[Lurks Often]

6. No, only the Senate gets to determine the rules of the Senate per the Constitution

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_5:_Procedure

"Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide."

[bdamomma]

10. they are shredding the

Constitution they need to all be arrested I only wish.

[KittyWampus]

3. It was illegally done. Required one day notice in advance of suspending rules.

Per Rule V, suspension of the rules would have required a 1 day, advanced notice in writing. I don't recall seeing anything about this being done. Was the suspension of the Rules, then, not done legally?

http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=RuleV

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5. illegitimate nominees

...tainted irrevocably by incomplete and misleading testimony and the anti-democratic (and illegal) actions of the committee leadership.

[BlueCaliDem]

7. And illegitimate DOTUS gets TWO illegitimate cabinet members, making this Admin

ILLEGITIMATE. Period.

And they should be seen and treated as such!

[KittyWampus]

8. Exactly. And I don't know what remedy there is to illegality of Mnuchin/Price. Supreme Court?

[BlueCaliDem]

16. Shaming helps. Getting out there and whining day in, day out to the press corps will keep these

illegitimate, unvetted DOTUS picks illegitimate and lacking any credibility on anything they do.

It'll take a while, but the majority of White Americans who voted for this clusterf**k will finally see what they've done, and change it. Happened under G.W., remember? It was so bad that many switched their registrations to 'I'. Duhbya ultimately left office with a 25% approval rating and made it possible for a Black Democratic candidate to win the presidency.

Shaming works.

[bdamomma]

9. don't the filthy Republicans realize

they are not protecting the Constitution, and protecting a reality TV celebrity???

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12. KICK

[ananda]

13. Illegitimate or not ..

.. are the Dems speaking out and fighting this?

No.

That's the problem.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Republicans are acting illegally like this

and you're attacking Democrats because they haven't done............what? How do you assume that they aren't doing anything.......or planning to do something (if they can do anything at all).

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17. yes

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[Blue_true]

20. Democrats need to repeat the republican only

Vote numbers incessantly, attack republican names to them. I remember a case in Colorado where a republican US House Member made a moral blunder that should have destroyed him. When confronted, he just repeated one canned answer to every question like a parrot, it was hilarious, but that same person would go on to take a US Senate seat that was held by a Democrat, because the Democrat chose not to attack that republican for his clear miscues.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Urine Hatch, fucking coward.

As is everyone else in that ratfuck party. I hope I live to see them get what is coming to them.

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18. kick

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19. They own it and we need to fucking shove their

Faces in it once it blows up. Democrates that vote for them to get along must be primaried.

[roamer65]

21. Oral Hatch has always been and always will be a useless piece of shit.

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22. this is the republican Senate executing a coup

...it should not be appeased. Democrats should not enable this takeover with their votes.