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发帖数: 61690 | 1 “I’m very disappointed in this kind of crap. … Some of this is because
they just don’t like the president.”
Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two of
President Trump’s more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their
consideration.
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep.
Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human
Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department.
The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join
Trump’s Cabinet.
Republicans expressed outrage at the move, while Democrats gathered outside
the Senate Finance Committee hearing room to outline their gripes with the
selections.
“I can’t understand why senators, who know we’re going to have these two
people go through, can’t support the committee,” said Chairman Orrin Hatch
(R-Utah).
“I’m very disappointed in this kind of crap. … Some of this is because
they just don’t like the president.”
“This is the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in my whole time in the United
States Senate,” he added.
Democrats walked out of the Senate Finance Committee hearing room, arguing
that Mnuchin and Price misled senators in their testimony before the panel,
and saying they could not allow a vote to proceed without more information. |
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