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Alternatives to Neera Tanden are being floated, as her confirmation path gets more difficult.
Two Senate committees on Wednesday postponed their votes on Neera Tanden’s nomination to be Office of Management and Budget director as opposition grew.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Budget committees both have to favorably report the nomination of Tanden, president and CEO of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, before the full Senate can take it up.
Since last Friday, Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, have said they will oppose her nomination, thus making the confirmation path trickier. They condemned her partisan history and mean tweets about lawmakers that she deleted before getting nominated. Of this group, Romney is on both committees that w
Two Moderate Senators Announce Opposition to Biden s OMB Pick, Making Confirmation Path Trickier
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think the election will be about obama. party affiliation business, it s particular striking in the case of republicans you have something on the order of 40% of americans say they are conservative but fewer than 30% say they are republicans. does that tell you the republican party is too far to the right or too much ineffective? bill: here is what it tells me. there isn t any brand leadership. if ronald reagan were still alive and he were the figure head of the republican party, bill clinton is a figurehead of democratic party. reagan were still alive, republican membership is up. there is no main spokesperson. jonl mccain has no mojo. his endorsement of mitt romeny s didn t get him very much. it might help anymore new hampshire a little bit, but there isn t any brand republican name to drive people into the
think the election will be about obama. party affiliation business, it s particular striking in the case of republicans you have something on the order of 40% of americans say they are conservative but fewer than 30% say they are republicans. does that tell you the republican party is too far to the right or too much ineffective? bill: here is what it tells me. there isn t any brand leadership. if ronald reagan were still alive and he were the figure head of the republican party, bill clinton is a figurehead of democratic party. reagan were still alive, republican membership is up. there is no main spokesperson. jonl mccain has no mojo. his endorsement of mitt romeny s didn t get him very much. it might help anymore new hampshire a little bit, but there isn t any brand republican name to drive people into the
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