Senate Finance Advances Treasury Secretary Nomination Through Procedural Move
The Senate Finance Committee on Feb. 1 used procedure similar to unanimous consent to advance Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin for full Senate consideration a day after committee Democrats used their own procedural move to block a committee vote on…
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the nomination, the committee announced (here). The committee GOP majority cleared the nomination under “suspension of the rules," again with no Democrats present, the committee said. All Democrats on the committee boycotted a scheduled confirmation vote for Mnuchin on Jan. 31, which required at least one of them to be present to establish a quorum (see 1701310038).