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Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
WASHINGTON — As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet-level nominees.
Republicans, who are expected to hold up to five hearings on Wednesday alone, say they simply want to ensure that the new president has a team in place as soon as possible. “I believe all the president-elect’s cabinet appointments will be confirmed,” Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said.
But Democrats are calling for the process to be slowed and for the hearings to be spread out. That, they say, would allow more time to vet the nominees. “Our first overarching focus is getting tax returns and ethics forms,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota.
In a letter to Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the leader of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter M. Shaub Jr., said on Friday that “the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me.”
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- Rongone
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Re: Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
McConnell said that because he wants to get his wife into her new office and set up a new income stream for the McConnell family bank account ASAP.
Not to mention the healthcare, expense, and retirement benefits Mr. & Mrs. McConnell can begin to enjoy.
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Re: Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
Nothing to see here ... Move along ! 
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We are heading for the most corrupt administration in history
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The boomerang response have already started.
"Well, Obama started early with confirmations".
First, it isn't the calendar. It's the fact that these people will have their hearings before being properly vetted. Before even filling out background checks, in some cases. Obama did not do that.
And, stopp the damned pivoting and squirming. No matter what anyone else did, how can you think that this serves the interests of The People?
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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