Senate confirms Buttigieg as Biden's transportation secretary

[Wicked Blue]

The Washington Post
John Wagner

The Senate voted 86 to 13 on Tuesday to confirm Buttigieg as Biden’s transportation secretary. The 39-year-old became the first openly gay person ever to win confirmation to a Cabinet position.

The nomination sailed through the Senate Commerce Committee last week on a 21-to-3 vote.

Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a former rival to Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, has pledged to get to work immediately on Biden’s agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure.

Ahead of the vote by the full Senate on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that Buttigieg “is committed to working with members from both sides to improve rail and transit, highways, and more — in rural communities, urban centers, and everywhere in between.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/02/joe-biden-live-updates/#link-V4OSJHO6UFDKJF3ROBOVO3NB4U

[demmiblue]

1. k&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Now, he is Secretary Pete!

I like the sound of that.

I know he will shine in this role.

[bluestarone]

3. GREAT news!!!

Now when will we get an AG.? (Bet that will be a fight)

[SMC22307]

4. Man, I love this. And that he, Chasten, Truman and Buddy...

are now in DC!

[3catwoman3]

5. Which 13 jerks voted against him?

I can make some pretty good guesses.

[a kennedy]

6. Would love to see that list as well.......

Love Secretary Pete.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Here's the list, my dear 3catwoman3!

Here's the list of Senators who voted against Secretary Buttigieg's nomination for the head of the Transportation Department:

Senators who voted against Buttigieg’s nomination were Republicans Tom Cotton (Ark.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Bill Cassidy (La.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Rick Scott (Fla.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), and James Lankford (Okla.).

All of them Republicans. 🤬

[My Pet Orangutan]

10. The Jim Crow Caucus

... all the usual Dixie suspects.

[msfiddlestix]

11. Tim Scott voted against him. First time I've tracked his confirmation voting record

I always forget about this guy. Someone mentioned his name on DU yesterday in the context of renouncing the TrumpliCon party association and go Independent. I'll take this one as sign that's not close to being likely.

I guess, all these other clowns don't think Transportation and Infrastructure is important to their states,

Ok, then. Maybe Buttigieg should put their states at the bottom of the list of priorities.

[3catwoman3]

12. I just finished posting the same thing.

I would be interested to hear their reasoning.

I think Cassidy is an MD. IIRC, I heard him interviewed about the pandemic, and while he himself supports wearing masks, he absolutely could NOT bring himself to say that it would be setting a good example for Trump to wear one.

[3catwoman3]

8. The usual suspects:

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Cotton (AK)
Cruz (TX)
Blackburn (TN) Hagerty (TN)
Rubio (FL)
Hawley (MO)
Rick Scott (FL)
Tim Scott (SC)
Tuberville (TN) Shelby (TN) - oops Alabama
Cassidy (LA)
Marshall (KS)
Langford (OK)

[Wounded Bear]

14. You've listed 4 Senators from Tennessee...

no wonder we can't get anything done.

[3catwoman3]

15. Oops!

I was paying more attention to a English Premier League soccer game, and the team we were rooting for had just gotten a second red card, so things weren’t going well.

[UTUSN]

9. Secretary BUTTIGIEG, get those roads fixed for my last round up tour, hopefully in a few years!

[Wounded Bear]

13. K&R...I think he'll be a good one...

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. I have every confidence he will kill it.

He is steadfast, and incredibly smart. He will find ways to do things that need to be done.

Further, I'm glad of this opportunity for him. It's a great way for him to get out on the national stage and gain some experience and cred in national politics.

Anyone who could and would learn Norwegian to enable him to read the works of a fairly obscure novelist is someone with too much potential for the country to let go.