Republicans Holding Floor Vs Devos

I simply cannot support her confirmation collins said on the senate floor last week.

Republicans holding floor vs devos.

They also believed it would be hard for republican senators in difficult re election races to vote against the resolution as proponents painted the choice as supporting either. Devos has been criticized for showing a lack of depth of knowledge of the education system in her confirmation hearings but is primarily opposed by democrats. Their last ditch effort is not expected to derail her confirmation vote around noon today but it kept alive what has become the fiercest opposition to a president trump cabinet appointee. Democrats could delay a vote until next week unless the.

If they vote as a bloc against devos and if they are joined by murkowski and collins the vote to confirm would be 50 50. On monday senate democrats announced their intention to hold the floor for the next 24 hours to protest president trump s education secretary nominee bet. Murkowski and collins announced their opposition to devos ahead of the vote on the grounds she is not qualified to be the education secretary. Democratic senators launched a final push against president trump s pick for education secretary betsy devos holding the floor in the final 24 hours before the senate votes on her appointment.

The vote will take place 12pm est on tuesday. Republican leaders quickly moved to tee up devos as the next nominee to receive a floor vote holding a procedural vote on her nomination. That s because all 50 democrats have agreed not to vote for devos while of the 52 republicans in senate two have stated they will not vote for her. There are 48 senators in the democratic caucus.

Devos has been criticized for showing a. Opponents of devos s rule had been hopeful of getting four republican votes to pass the resolution in the senate after six republicans voted for the house measure. Democrats are mounting a 24 hour blitz to try and sink at least one nomination from president donald trump s cabinet attacking education secretary nominee betsy devos a day before her. Democratic senators spent the wee small hours of the morning holding the senate floor in a marathon protest of betsy devos s nomination as education secretary.