Ramsey Cox. @RamseyTheHill. Reporter for The Hill's Floor Action Blog, covering the Senate. Washington, D.C.
Posted on 05/02/2014 1:07:56 PM PDT by kcvl
The Senate confirmed four of President Obama’s executive and judicial nominees Thursday.
Theodore Chuang and George Hazel will serve as U.S. district judges for Maryland. The Senate voted 53-42 on Chuang’s nomination and 95-0 on Hazel’s.
Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he couldn’t support Chuang’s nomination because he helped the Obama administration “stonewall” Congress on the investigation of the death of four Americans at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. “I can’t support his nomination because of the central role Mr. Chuang played in the administration’s efforts to stonewall an investigation into the situation in Benghazi,” Grassley said. “These questions remain unanswered because the administration refuses to recognize the rights of congressional oversight.”
Chuang provided legal counsel to the State Department and Department of Homeland Security.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) defended Chuang, saying he was only doing his job and Grassley’s “beef” was really with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“I’m kind of tired of this Benghazi witch hunt stuff,” Mikulski said. “He did not have decision making authority as to whether to provide documents to the committee. That decision came from higher up.”
The Senate also confirmed Janice Schneider to be an assistant secretary of the Interior on a 64-32 vote.
Senators confirmed Suzan LeVine to be U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein by voice vote.
Those are expected to be the last votes of the week for the Senate. Two more nomination votes are scheduled for next Monday.
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Or, what difference does it make?
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) “Leaving 41 people to die is no big deal.”
Krauthammer’s Take: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Tapes
NRO May 1, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtr9_8yoqI&feature=player_embedded
Krauthammer’s Take: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Tapes
NRO May 1, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bxtr9_8yoqI&feature=player_embedded
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It is appalling that President Obama never was in the Situation Room the night of September 11, 2012, as our ambassador to Libya and three other men were being attacked, captured, and eventually killed after being dragged through the streets of Benghazi and tortured in hideous fashion.
According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff. In a recent study by the Government Accountability Institute, Mr. Obama has only attended 43.8 percent of his Presidential Daily Briefs in the first 1,225 days of his Administration.
Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that he: ‘Could not put forces at risk’ in order to rescue our men who were under Muslim terrorist attack in Benghazi.
When President Bush took charge all the MSM were deriding him as lacking “gravité” to occupy the Oval Office; but MSM never put in question the record or exposed the dubious past of Barack Obama. Commenting on the scandal of Benghazi and Obama’s regime cover-up, Ambassador Bolton said, “I love children, I just don’t think they should be in charge of foreign policy”
Obama bragged in his auto-biography that he consumed all kinds of drugs enthusiastically. How is it possible that the American people voted twice for somebody whose only qualifications in life was to be a community (communist) agitator? Will MSM give the seal of approval for Al Sharpton, or Rev Wright be the next U.S. president?
An article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon hit the bulls-eye:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
If Trey Gowdy Chairs the Congress Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, this scandal will prove to be much worse than Watergate.
I’m kind of tired of senile offensive degenerate fat oaf socialist lesbian losers being senators.
Thanks, you posted that to me already.
Any...repeat ANY of Obama’s nominations should be scuttled. They are by definition not in the best interest of America. JMHO!
For the list.
What are the details and what is the stonewalling Chuang did for Hillary.
Bad journalism.
There are no journalists in the major media. They function as the Praetorian Guard for any sitting Democrat.
Ramsey Cox. @RamseyTheHill. Reporter for The Hill's Floor Action Blog, covering the Senate. Washington, D.C.
I’ll just bet that she wishes it would all just go away.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
” - - - Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he couldn’t support Chuang’s nomination because he helped the Obama administration “stonewall” Congress on the investigation of the death of four Americans at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. “I can’t support his nomination because of the central role Mr. Chuang played in the administration’s efforts to stonewall an investigation into the situation in Benghazi,” Grassley said. “These questions remain unanswered because the administration refuses to recognize the rights of congressional oversight.”
Chuang provided legal counsel to the State Department and Department of Homeland Security. - - - “
Ah HAH! Fresh meat for Speaker Boehner’s future Special Prosecutor Committee to chew on!
I’m kinda tired of Barbara Mikulski. When is she up for election?
That can't be true. Hillary Clinton said that the Libyan people carried the Ambassador gently and tried to save his life, but he'd been overcome by smoke inhalation....sarc/off
“Dude, that was two years ago!”
“”I’m kind of tired of senile offensive degenerate fat oaf socialist lesbian losers being senators.””
You have successfully offended at least eight different classes of persons in that one sentence...shame!!!
“”What are the details and what is the stonewalling Chuang did for Hillary””
We could all use a few details on this. What position was he in to help Hillary or the State Department?
Anyone know how Maine’s collins and king voted?
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