McConnell: No Votes on Trump Nominees Until Ethics Paperwork Complete

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday that he will not allow votes on President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees until those individuals’ ethics paperwork is complete through the Office of Government Ethics. In 2009, McConnell wrote to then-Majority Leader Harry Reid asking that all nominees’ financial disclosure forms be completed before hearings are scheduled. “We want to have all the records in, all of the papers completed before they’re actually confirmed on the Senate floor,” McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

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[Archae]

1. "All those who believe that, stand on their heads!" -Col Blake, MASH

[Va Lefty]

2. Right

[wordpix]

3. Turtle tucks his head in as stuff thrown his way w/6 cabinet picks to be reviewed in one day

The Turtle has got to GO!

BTW, someone told me KY took O-care and Medicaid expansion even as he wants repeal of ACA

[C Moon]

4. Just part of the show. They can't wait to giddily approve everything RW.

[Generator]

5. Wow a an actual stand that isn't a bendover for Trump.

Amazeballs. Elizabeth Warren was having a fit about this so I hoped that pushed him over!

[Snerd]

10. Bigger hope

I hope McConnell was swayed by hundreds of thousands of voters writing to him and calling him. I wrote to him.

Power in numbers. Let's not rely on some cult of personality.

[hwmnbn]

13. Cool...

Welcome to DU

[AgadorSparticus]

19. So agree!!! We all need to be loud and proud!

[Crash2Parties]

17. Oh, it still is - who is going to fact check the financial statements?

Especially with just two days to go?

Probably not the Ethics Office...

[Historic NY]

6. What made him change his mind?

[TeamPooka]

7. Without ethics vetting he knows they will be crucified by press and populace for years.

[Garion_55]

9. and the senators will be responsible

for approving all the turd biscuits without proper venting.

something pops up later and people are going to be blaming congress.

[Talk Is Cheap]

8. Ethics 'paperwork' would be appropriate for presidential candidates as well...

...including tax returns... Like Trump maybe...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. WaPo article about the same interview:

McConnell: Democrats need to ‘grow up’ and let Trump nominees get confirmed

By Ed O'Keefe January 8 at 1:59 PM

@edatpost

Republicans are vowing to press ahead with confirmation hearings this week for Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees despite the concerns of a federal watchdog that their complex backgrounds are slowing required ethics reviews.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that there are no plans to alter a packed confirmation calendar, but he vowed that no nominee will earn an up-or-down vote until the requisite background checks are completed by the FBI and a federal ethics office.

“The Democrats are really frustrated that they lost the election,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” adding that he was in a similar situation eight years ago when President Obama took office.

“What did we do? We confirmed seven Cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in. We didn’t like most of them, either. But he won the election,” McConnell said. “So all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration at having not only lost the White House, but having lost the Senate. I understand that. But we need to, sort of, grow up here and get past that.”

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. "We confirmed seven Cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in"

"We"?

He was minority leader with 40 seats in 2009. "We" might want to use that as an example of leadership but "we" was in opposition then and couldn't stop the appointments.
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[Igel]

15. It was also a voice vote.

They could have reasonably asked to go on record opposing nominations. If you insist on seeing ill-will every place you can possibly find it, esp. in silence, there's no end to the evil you'll see. Real or otherwise.

Being a pollyanna is also pretty dangerous.

[Doitnow]

12. This is ambiguous. Is this article claiming McConnell is saying this now, or just

quoting his having said it in 2009 when insisting the Dems follow the rules.

[Igel]

16. Both.

I'm not sure if it's a valid implicature that in 2009 (D) weren't following the rules. In normal speech that would be a valid inference. Not here, sadly.

Political speech--increasing most politics-tinged speech--doesn't oblige the "cooperative principle" that is usually taken to underlie most American English discourse.

[lancelyons]

18. It doesnt sound like McConnell is saying this at all.

It doesnt sound like McConnell is saying this at all.