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applegrove

(118,006 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 07:57 PM Jan 2017

Schumer brilliantly exposes GOP hypocrisy by sending McConnell his own 2009 confirmation letter

Schumer brilliantly exposes GOP hypocrisy by sending McConnell his own 2009 confirmation letter

by Elizabeth Preza at the Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/schumer-brilliantly-exposes-gop-hypocrisy-by-sending-mcconnell-his-own-2009-confirmation-letter/

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Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer issued an “eminently reasonable” bipartisan request Monday regarding Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, sending Mitch McConnell his own 2009 letter with some—nominal—changes.

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Then-Minority Leader McConnell sent the letter to then-Majority Leader Harry Reid about the confirmation process for President Barack Obama’s cabinet. Included in the letter was a list of standards expected by Republican leaders “prior to considering any time agreements on the floor on any nominee.”

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Now, eight years later, it seems the Republican-led Congress is hoping to bypass their own stringent set of requirements, moving to hold confirmation hearings for nine of Trump’s nominees this week, even as Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub Jr. expressed “great concern” over the hearing schedule.

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“As OGE’s director, the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed the ethics review process is of great concern to me,” Shaub wrote in a letter to Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren last week.

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Schumer brilliantly exposes GOP hypocrisy by sending McConnell his own 2009 confirmation letter (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2017 OP
I want to know turtle man's response n/t angstlessk Jan 2017 #1
From my twitter feed Gothmog Jan 2017 #2
Thank you. I have no idea how to capture stuff from applegrove Jan 2017 #3
I really like the way Chuck Schumer is beginning his leadership position. He's a typical napi21 Jan 2017 #4

applegrove

(118,006 posts)
3. Thank you. I have no idea how to capture stuff from
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 08:08 PM
Jan 2017

twitter that is embedded in another website's story.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
4. I really like the way Chuck Schumer is beginning his leadership position. He's a typical
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 08:21 PM
Jan 2017

New Yorker...doesn't take any s^$% from anybody, and he did it in a very professional way. Sure got his message through to the
Turtle. I wish I could have been present when he got that letter. I always enjoy seeing him PO'd!

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