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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchumer brilliantly exposes GOP hypocrisy by sending McConnell his own 2009 confirmation letter
Schumer brilliantly exposes GOP hypocrisy by sending McConnell his own 2009 confirmation letterby 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 Trumps cabinet nominees, sending Mitch McConnell his own 2009 letter with somenominalchanges.
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Then-Minority Leader McConnell sent the letter to then-Majority Leader Harry Reid about the confirmation process for President Barack Obamas 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 Trumps 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 OGEs 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
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angstlessk
(11,862 posts)1. I want to know turtle man's response n/t
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)2. From my twitter feed
applegrove
(118,006 posts)3. Thank you. I have no idea how to capture stuff from
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
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!