This just in.
Becerra squeaks through confirmation vote to become HHS secretary
Perhaps the most important cabinet position for our current situation.
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He becomes the first Latino secretary of HHS, the largest federal department in terms of spending. The department includes agencies at the core of the federal response to the pandemic that has infected more than 29.5 million people in the United States and killed more than 535,000. They include the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the vaccine-approving Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the country’s vast public insurance programs.
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What a vote of confidence that Mr. Becerra squeaked in with a 50-49 vote!
He has been a congressman for over two decades and then California AG. The GQP makes me sick.
Let's end filibuster NOW! Since the Supreme Court justices can be confirmed by a simple majority, why go through the charade of treating GQP like partners when they are poised to block every one of President Biden's agenda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...fe4_story.html