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. 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. 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. In a last minute bid to halt betsy devos confirmation as secretary of education senate democrats said monday they would debate on the chamber floor overnight to convince one more republican. 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.

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. She cleared the senate committee by a 12 11 vote 12 republicans v. 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. President donald trump nominated betsy devos to be the next secretary of education much to the dismay of 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. Patty murray of washington said monday. Her confirmation now moves to the floor of the senate where all she needs for confirmation is a majority vote.