Boycotted the Committee Proceedings because of their concerns that both mr. Price and mr. Mnuchin did not answer their questions correctly and in a straightforward manner in their sworn testimony last month. Now, what the republicans decided to do was, instead of there were two options. She could either see donald trump send these two nominees, install these two nominees on his own by a recess appointment, something he could do under his constitutional authority, or take this dramatic step of suspending the rules altogether and pushing these nominees through to the floor on their own accord. And that is the course they took. Now, democrats are outraged by this. They put out a letter just moments before this 9 30 hearing and said they wanted a bunch of answers to questions that they believe that price and mnuchin did not answer correctly in their hearing. But theyre not going to get answers to those questions as republicans take matters into their own hands, believing that democrats are
Mold of justice antonin scalia. Gorsuch said this in his acceptance remarks. Standing here in a house of history and acutely aware of my own imperfections i pledge if im confirmed i will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the constitutional laws of this great country. Bill senator john cornyn at the white house serving on the Senate Judiciary committee what oversees the hearing for neil gorsuch. It was a surprise. They kept it secret. How did the president arrive at this decision . Good morning to you. A long, deliberative process to get to the announcement last night. Nine months ago candidate donald trump listed names of Supreme Court justices and expanded it to 21. He whittled that list down to six finalists and interviewed four. During the transition he interviewed neil gorsuch at trump tower he knew he had his man and said the judge is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I studied every aspect of his life. He could have had any job at any law firm for any amoun
Of that geniality weve come to know. And, really, it underscores how divisive and intense the fomoods right now among democrats to try and oppose donald trump in absolutely any way they can. It was striking to see all of the chairs in this Committee Room on the democratic side empty today. They used that tactic to delay these votes from yesterday by saying using an obscure rule in the committee that requires at least one democrat be present. Essentially the republicans flipped farther into the rulebook and found another rule that would allow them to change the rules and did so, and so then they went ahead and voted to approve these two nominations out of committee. They were approved 140 because there were no democrats present to object. So now tom price, Steve Mnuchin will be moved out of the finance committee and to a full vote on the senate floor. At this point, no indication that they wont have the votes to move forward in the full senate. At this point we anticipate they will be c