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    Democrats Launch Another Talkathon Before Sessions Confirmation Vote

    Democrats Launch Another Talkathon Before Sessions Confirmation Vote

    Kerry Picket
    6:59 PM 02/07/2017

    WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats kicked off another 30-hour floor debate Tuesday night to protest Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions. Sessions’ confirmation vote is scheduled for Wednesday night, and all Republicans are expected to vote in favor of the Alabama Republican senator, which would be enough to confirm Sessions.

    The hours of debate came after Senate Republicans, with the help of Vice President Mike Pence, confirmed Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to her new post Tuesday afternoon.

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters Tuesday that Democrats plan 30-hour debates prior to the confirmation votes for the rest of Trump’s cabinet nominees.

    “We have an obligation, obviously to try and overturn some of these nominees who are among the worse cabinet I have seen ever nominated, but at the same time we also have an obligation, even if we don’t win, to show the American people who these nominees are,” Schumer said.

    “At this point in the Obama administration there were 21 cabinet members confirmed to seven that were confirmed under the new Trump administration. What I find particularly egregious is the fact that Democrats have slowed down and slow walked and obstructed the nomination and confirmation of one of the president’s national security cabinet members. That would be considered Jeff Sessions, his attorney general,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told reporters.

    “Since 9/11 it’s been recognized the Department of Justice serves not only an important law enforcement role but is an integral part of our national security team,” he added.

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that after the Sessions confirmation vote Tuesday night, confirmation votes for Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Price and Treasury Secretary nominee Stephen Mnuchin are on the docket for later this week.

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/de...irmation-vote/
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    Elizabeth Warren rebuked for quoting Coretta Scott King while debating Jeff Sessions'

    Elizabeth Warren rebuked for quoting Coretta Scott King while debating Jeff Sessions' nomination

    Tuesday, February 7, 2017

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington, Feb. 6, 2017, about the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Education Secretary. (Senate TV via AP)

    Senate Republicans passed a party-line rebuke Tuesday night of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for a speech opposing attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions, striking down her words for impugning the Alabama senator's character.

    In an extraordinarily rare move, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., interrupted Warren's speech, in a near-empty chamber as debate on Sessions' nomination heads toward a Wednesday evening vote, and said that she had breached Senate rules by reading past statements against Sessions from figures such as the late senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and the late Coretta Scott King.

    "The senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama," McConnell said, then setting up a series of roll-call votes on Warren's conduct.

    It was the latest clash in the increasingly hostile debate over confirming President Donald Trump's Cabinet, during which Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to force through nominees without proper vetting. Democrats, unable to stop the confirmations that require simple majorities, have countered by using extreme delay tactics that have dragged out the process longer than any in history for a new president's Cabinet.

    The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last week and a round-the-clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling point during the debate over Sessions -- which Democrats are vowing to continue overnight.

    Warren specifically cited portions of a letter that King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to Sessions's 1986 nomination to be a federal judge.

    "Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens," King wrote, referencing controversial prosecutions at the time that Sessions served as the U.S. attorney for Alabama. Earlier, Warren read from the 1986 statement of Kennedy, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee who led the opposition then against Sessions, including the Massachusetts Democrat's concluding line: "He is, I believe, a disgrace to the Justice Department and he should withdraw his nomination and resign his position."

    The Senate voted, 49 to 43, strictly on party lines, to uphold the ruling that Warren violated rules of debate. Pursuant to those rules, Warren is now forbidden from speaking during the remainder of the debate on the nomination of Sessions.

    "I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate," Warren said after McConnell's motion.

    Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., a freshman who was presiding over the Senate at the time, issued a warning to Warren at that point, singling out Kennedy's "disgrace" comment, and 25 minutes later McConnell came to the floor and set in motion the battle, citing the comments in the King letter as crossing the line.

    Warren's speech ended with a simple admonition from Daines: "The senator will take her seat."

    Later, McConnell defended his decision.

    "Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation," he said. "Nevertheless, she persisted."

    Other Democrats later came to her defense and tried to have King's letter placed into the Senate record. But Republican senators quickly objected. They did so again when Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., the chamber's only African-American woman, asked that Warren be allowed to resume participation in the debate.

    Warren, a liberal firebrand with a devoted national following whom some activists want to run for president in 2020, quickly took to social media and the airwaves to attack McConnell and Republicans for shutting down her speech.

    In a brief telephone interview with MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," a program watched loyally by many Warren devotees, she explained that "I've been red-carded on Sen. Sessions, I'm out of the game of the Senate floor. I don't get to speak at all."

    Public reaction to the Senate floor drama intensified quickly online. RedBubble.com, an online clothing website for independent designers, began selling a "She Persisted" T-shirt or sweatshirt -- seizing on McConnell's admonition of Warren. Democrats began using #LetLizSpeak on Twitter and posted copies of King's letter on Facebook to draw more attention to Warren's speech.

    At least one other Democrat, Sen. Christopher Murphy (Conn.), hinted that he might try to pick up where Warren left off at some point overnight, saying on Twitter, "Go ahead and rule me out of order.

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    You know, the saddest thing about what the DemoQuacks are doing here with their "racist card" fight against Sessions is that the DemoQuacks don't give a hoot about Black Americans, the reason they oppose the Sessions nomination is because of his positions on enforcing US immigration law. Sessions position on immigration law like Trump's will do so much for the Black American community with new jobs, higher wages, better benefits, more seats in good colleges and universities, more job and business opportunities that will actually improve the lives of Black Americans in ways that will propel the entire Black community to a new level of success, prosperity and happiness.

    I hope Black Americans are paying close attention to what is really going on here and if you're not already on the Trump Train, jump on fast.
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    GOP votes to silence Sen. Warren for attacks on AG nominee Jeff Sessions

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 7, 2017

    Fed up with what they said were out-of-bounds Democratic attacks on President Trump’s attorney general nominee, Republicans struck back Tuesday night, voting to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren for inappropriate behavior on the floor of the Senate.

    The 49-43 vote, which broke along party lines, meant Ms. Warren was not able to continue her floor speech attacking Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of her colleagues and Mr. Trump’s nominee to head the Justice Department.

    It marked a new low in already frosty relations in Washington, where Democrats have mounted strenuous objections to Mr. Trump’s agenda. But going after Mr. Sessions, a longtime colleague who has worked with many of the Democrats in the chamber, was too much for the GOP.

    Democrats were in the middle of a 30-hour debate, holding the floor to blast Mr. Sessions when Ms. Warren made the comment in question.

    “The senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in demanding the vote to punish her.
    He said Ms. Warren had violated the rules once, had been warned and given an explanation, and “nevertheless she persisted,” notching a second violation that forced him to act.

    Democrats were furious, with Ms. Warren saying her offending comments were actually quoting the late wife of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. when she objected to Mr. Sessions’ nomination to a federal judgeship in the 1980s.

    “I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate,” she said.

    In a letter at the time of Mr. Sessions’ earlier nomination, King had accused him of “a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters.”

    “Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge,” she wrote in a letter that has been revived now that Mr. Sessions is up for a vote to be attorney general.

    Mr. Sessions crossed a key threshold earlier Tuesday when the GOP, joined by a single Democrat, voted to break an attempted Democratic filibuster.

    Mr. Sessions is a sitting senator, and under the chamber’s rules, no senator may question the conduct of another.

    As Republicans demanded senators come to the chamber to vote on the punishment, Ms. Warren remained defiant.

    “Why don’t you just let me finish?” she said.

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