Posted on 04/05/2011 2:19:54 PM PDT by Nachum
The Senate Budget Committee, Tuesday, voted to recommend Obama’s nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the full Senate. The 11-10 vote was along party lines, with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont absent and Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio abstaining.
When President Obama nominated Heather Higginbottom to the number-two position at OMB, Republicans on the committee viewed it as a sign the president is not serious about cutting spending. Put simply, Republican’s interpreted the nomination of someone with no budget experience as a pure political move.
But even Democrats on the committee revealed a possible case of nerves surrounding the confirmation when the originally-scheduled vote last week was suddenly called off at the last minute. A spokesperson for the majority’s office at the Budget Committee told The Daily Caller that the switch was due to the fact that a floor vote had been canceled.
A Republican Senate source, however, told TheDC that “you don’t need floor activity to hold a committee vote.”
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