Senate Schedules Votes On Three Trump Cabinet Nominees

Democratic lawmakers have indicated they will return the favor, offering to give Trump’s nominee “the same courtesy Senate Republicans gave Merrick Garland”, as U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer said.

“The idea that there’s no threats out there and that the executive branch doesn’t have the exclusive ability to determine what those are is, from my perspective.it’s a pretty bold assertion by a court”, said Sullivan, who noted that he had not yet read the full court opinion. McConnell can continue to work the system with his party alone.

“Democratic aides say they will eventually shift to a positive economic message that Rust Belt Democrats can run on. So what we’ve got to do is count on people all around this country to make their voices heard”.

“Trump’s looking to do stuff and Manchin sees how popular he is here in West Virginia”, said Chris Regan, who lost the chairmanship of the state Democratic Party to a Manchin ally in June.

This kind of staunch and robust opposition to certain nominees started during George W. Bush’s first term, notably with most Democrats refusing to support attorney general nominee John Ashcroft because of his record on civil rights. That’s how they act. “People may ask that”, Crowley said. “And none of them had been organized the week before”.

In reality, Democrats have little leverage to assert their will in a House where the majority party has all the power. That is a threat to all Americans, Republicans and Democrats alike. In 2016, they gained six seats, putting them about where they were after the party’s landslide 2010 defeat.

Rep. Cheri Bustos of IL, who is now co-leading the House Democrats’ messaging and policy operation, is one example of the latter. Instead, their half-dozen wins were largely because of court-ordered redistricting.

Connolly pointed to protests against Republicans such as those endured by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., who left a town hall meeting in his home district under police escort last weekend after hundreds of demonstrators showed up.

Two people familiar with the preliminary report but not authorized to comment on it expect the review to be critical of some Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee practices, including some long-standing relationships with outside consultants. Rep.

Said Schumer: “I normally root for blue states over red states, but the Patriots are so pro-Trump I was rooting for the Falcons”.

Pelosi said the rapid pace of the new Trump administration – and the many controversies that have followed his earliest policy moves – risk overshadowing the Democrats’ message.

But the way forward won’t be all about resisting the administration, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) pointed out. “Others tweet back at him. I really think it was a very wrong thing to do”. They admit they will drag things out on objective. Democrats are pointing out that many of Trump’s cabinet picks are unqualified and outside the political mainstream, Republicans are calling the Dems out as obstructions, and in turn the Dems say the GOP are a bunch of hypocrites. However, AOL writer William Steakin believes that it has to do with how quickly Trump is moving on implementing his campaign promisess via executive order. As predicted, the Democrats’ attempt to delay confirmation hearings for Cabinet nominees simply resulted in Senate Republicans changing the rules and confirming nominees without input from the Democrats. “He may have promised 1,200 Carrier jobs and delivered 800; he may have promised 4 percent GDP [growth] and it’s around 2 percent”.

Did Chuck Schumer think we’d just forget about 2013? A release from CBC chairman Cedric Richmond of Louisiana during the retreat said African-Americans feel taken for granted by the party and want more “drastic tactics” to fight policies.