Republicans Holding Floor Vs Devos

Her confirmation now moves to the floor of the senate where all she needs for confirmation is a majority vote.

Republicans holding floor vs devos.

Two republican senators voted tuesday against president donald trump s secretary of education nominee betsy devos forcing vice president mike pence to cast a historic vote to break the tie to. Democrats will hold the floor for the next 24 hours until the final vote to do everything we can to persuade just one more republican to join us sen. In an effort to stop the confirmation of betsy devos as secretary of education senate democrats spent monday night and tuesday morning speaking on the senate floor about devos inexperience and. For most nominees legislators will agree to shorten that debate time.

She cleared the senate committee by a 12 11 vote 12 republicans v. But in this case as she has been many other times throughout her confirmation process devos is unique and democrats required the republican majority to run out the clock and pledged to hold the floor for the final 24 hours starting at noon monday. 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. President donald trump nominated betsy devos to be the next secretary of education much to the dismay of democrats.

Because republicans have a slim 52 48 seat majority in the senate and every democrat is expected to oppose devos the defection of just one more gop senator would sink her nomination. Patty murray of washington said monday. Democrats are looking to tie republicans to president trump and education secretary betsy devos as the administration threatens to cut funding to schools unless they resume in person learning.