Gabbard Clears Procedural Vote on the Senate Floor, Setting Up Confirmation Vote Within Days
One Democratic senator tells the Sun that he and his colleagues will likely try to delay Gabbard’s final confirmation vote.
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has cleared a key procedural vote on the Senate floor, setting up her confirmation vote to be the next director of national intelligence on either Tuesday or Wednesday. No Democrats joined with Republicans on the motion to proceed Monday evening.
The Senate voted to invoke cloture, meaning to end debate, on Ms. Gabbard’s nomination on a party-line vote by a margin of 52 to 46.
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