Republicans Holding Floor Vs Devos

Senate democrats have announced a plan to hold the senate floor for the next 24 hours to speak against president donald trump s pick for education secretary betsy devos.

Republicans holding floor vs devos.

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. Patty murray of washington said monday. 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.

Her confirmation now moves to the floor of the senate where all she needs for confirmation is a majority vote. President donald trump nominated betsy devos to be the next secretary of education much to the dismay of democrats. For most nominees legislators will agree to shorten that debate time. 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.

She cleared the senate committee by a 12 11 vote 12 republicans v. 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. 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.