Sessions approved by Senate committee
Source: The Hill
A Senate committee voted to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general on Wednesday, two days after the growing controversy surrounding President Trumps travel ban on seven Muslim nations led to the firing of an acting attorney general for insubordination.
Sessions's nomination now goes to the floor, where he is widely expected to be confirmed given the GOP's 52-seat majority.
The committee vote comes as Senate Democrats have sought to slow progress on other Trump nominees, including Steve Mnuchin, the pick at the Treasury Department, and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump's pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
The Alabama senator's already difficult path to confirmation was made more contentious by Trump's firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who deemed the president's order illegal and said she would not have Justice attorneys defend it.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317035-sessions-approved-by-senate-committee
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Also, this sucks:
They were saying (during Franken's speech) that Cruz was absent... did one of the dems vote for Sessions? If so, who was it, so we can berate him or her?
angrychair
(8,685 posts)Demit
(11,238 posts)Meaning all cmte Dems voted against.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)The Judiciary committee has only nine democrats. All of them voted NO. I thought some of the other committees had ten minority members. I guess it varies?
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)Solly Mack
(90,761 posts)Sickening