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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz Spitefully Delaying Biden Ambassador Nominees Over Russia Pipeline
As of now, only one Biden administration ambassador has been confirmed. And the president has Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to thank for the hold-up. The senator has been singlehandedly slow-walking 59 nominees for ambassadorships and is threatening to delay more, all over the issue of a Russian gas pipeline, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Its a move one Democratic lawmaker, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), called unprecedented and an undermining of the
national security process in a statement to the paper. Cruz isnt just delaying ambassadors confirmations, he is also blocking other nominees, some in key national security positions that remain empty. Currently, only approximately one in four key national security jobs have been filled, although the Times points out that the Biden administration was slow to submit many foreign policy nominees.
Why is Cruz doing this? He is opposed to Bidens actions regarding the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project that would run between Russia and Germany while bypassing Ukraine. The senator believes by allowing the pipeline to go forward, as Biden did when he waived sanctions Congress placed on the project, that the president is showing weakness toward Russia. Thus began Cruzs intentional delays of even the most routine Biden nominations.
Cruz is accomplishing this by objecting to the traditional way Congress handles these nominees, through unanimous consent. With his objections, Cruz forces the process to take hours of Senate floor time.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ted-cruz-spitefully-delaying-biden-165705639.html
Maybe he can read "Green Eggs and Ham" again.
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(4,217 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)Play fuck-fuck with him in ways he and his idiot constituents will understand.
Close Fort Hood by moving all the units there to Calif. Maybe taking billions of dollars out of the local economy and turning that part of Texas into a bunch of ghost towns will get his attention. (Dont want to make Texans dependent on big government now, do we?)
And then close Fort Sam Houston. The personnel there will fit very well in Penn., NJ, and Marylands medical communities.
Need more? Corpus Christi and Red River Army depots, Air Force Personnel Center, a couple of Naval Air Centers and the IRS Service Center. And thats just for starters.
And Biden can do it with a phone call.