Mnuchin, Price, Sessions Advance in Senate as Democrats Boycott
- Republicans circumvent protest to advance several nominees
- Democrats force delays on votes for Pruitt, Mulvaney
Senate Panel Approves Mnuchin, Price by Emergency Steps
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Senate Republicans brushed aside a boycott from angry Democrats and took emergency steps Wednesday to advance the nominations of Steven Mnuchin to run Treasury and Tom Price to head Health and Human Services.
The Judiciary Committee separately approved the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general on Wednesday in a straight party-line 11-9 vote, one day after Democrats forced a delay by making lengthy speeches blasting Trump for his executive actions on immigration and questioning Sessions’s independence.