Senate confirms former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary

[George II]

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-transportation-industry-regulation-industry-regulation-south-bend-legislature-32e43db78e415f61f18788c864ca072e

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Breaking: This is the entire report. I'm sure more to follow

Edited to add the NO votes. No surprises:

Blackburn
Cassidy
Cotton
Cruz
Hagerty
Hawley
Lankford
Marshall
Rubio
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Shelby
Tuberville

Not Voting:

Toomey

[True Blue American]

1. 86 to 13!

[ProfessorGAC]

11. So, We Have 13 Names For The...

...enemies of democracy list.
Why would anybody vote against any non-felon for DOT secretary?
Especially since the need for rebuilding infrastructure is so great.
It's pure antidemocratic obstructionism.

[Bleacher Creature]

12. We know at least four of them.

Hawley, Cruz, Blackburn, and Tuberville are all trying desperately to appeal to the Trump lunatics.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. You're Right

We now have 9 more weasels identified.

[geardaddy]

26. It's homophobia pure and simple.

[Ford_Prefect]

28. I think that's the reason too.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Certainty An Element

I think it's that plus...
Just being jerks is clearly in their milieu.

[onetexan]

58. that and the fact they're green w/ jealousy. They're prolly thinking whose this guy whose only a

mayor now elevated to Secretary of Transportation on the president's cabinet, no less? Well tough luck Seditious Senators. You now have a taste of your own medicine

[onetexan]

56. yup the Sedition Senators

[ooky]

59. The Dirty Baker's Dozen. nt

[DonaldsRump]

2. He is now known as "Secretary Pete"! Congrats, Sir, you're a great one!

[onetexan]

57. oh i love the sound of that - Secretary Pete!

Congrats Secretary Pete!!

[bdamomma]

3. Yes!!!!!

that is good news. Transportation Secretary Buttigieg!!!! So happy for him.

[My Pet Orangutan]

4. huzzah!

Congratulations Secretary Buttigieg !

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Beat me to it!

Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg to lead Transportation Dept., the first openly gay person confirmed to a Cabinet seat



By Michael Laris and Ian Duncan
Feb. 2, 2021 at 1:17 p.m. EST


The days since the presidential inauguration have been wall-to-wall Pete Buttigieg. He’s been on “The View,” “The Tonight Show” and talked to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, deploying the deft rhetoric he used on the campaign trail to boost President Biden and their shared agenda. The goals focus on climate change and racial justice, in addition to more traditional issues of infrastructure, safety and federal spending.

In the days before his Senate confirmation Tuesday to become transportation secretary, Buttigieg has taken the new administration’s broader message to people who might miss it. In the process, he’s seeking to expand views of what it means to be transportation secretary — a job Biden says will have an outsize role in pushing his priorities but one that comes with sharp limits on formal powers.

The position’s low-profile could present Buttigieg with an opportunity, public policy experts say. “Nobody has any idea what that job entails,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who studies political communication and is director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “If you’re going to define a role, it’s much easier than redefining a role.”

Buttigieg’s nomination sailed through the Senate Commerce Committee last week on a 21-to-3 vote. The Senate voted 86-to-13 on Tuesday to support his nomination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/pete-buttigieg-transportation-secretary/2021/02/01/e43795f8-60c6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

Congrats!

[bdamomma]

9. He's such

a good person. Really happy for him.

[George II]

10. Sorry. The Senate was waiting forever for that 100th vote, guess it never happened. Can't believe...

....there were 13 boneheads who voted against the confirmation.

[leftieNanner]

13. I think Elizabeth Warren is in quarantine

She may have been the 100th vote.

I may have to look up the 13 idiots. Probably the usual suspects.

Pete has a bright future. Maybe VP candidate along with Kamala Harris down the road?

[Budi]

16. That is my dream ticket!

Kamala & Pete 🙂💙

[ShazzieB]

41. THAT would be

FANTASTIC!!!!!

[NYC Liberal]

18. Yes, it was the usual suspects:

Tom Cotton
Roger Marshall
Bill Cassidy
Rick Scott
James Langford
Marco Rubio
Richard Shelby
Tommy Tuberville
Marsha Blackburn
Tim Scott
Josh Hawley
Bill Hagerty
Ted Cruz

[bucolic_frolic]

24. That bunch prob thinks

Secretary Pete will be contaminating airplane seats. Squirmy Senators. They have made no effort to be bipartisan.

[George II]

30. She voted. Toomey was the only Senator that didn't vote.

[leftieNanner]

31. Thanks for the correction

I'm glad she is out and about.

[George II]

33. Yes, I guess she's okay now. Lots of times they quarantine only because they were exposed, not sick.

....

[ShazzieB]

42. That's what happened to Rachel Maddow.

She did her show from home for a couple weeks when her partner, Susan, had covid. (Fortunately, Susan recovered, and Rachel never got sick.)

[DeminPennswoods]

36. Wonder if Toomey got socked in with the snow

given he lives in NE Pa.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. Why wouldn't he be in D.C.

since they are in session and the storm didn't really get underway (including up there) until later on Sunday, unless he is commuting like Biden used to do (although that would be a big hike to go back and forth from NE PA to D.C.) vs Wilmington (unless he had a family issue and had to be home).

Casey's PA residence is in Scranton but he voted (am assuming he stays at some residence in the D.C. area like most).

[DeminPennswoods]

51. Beats me, just a theory

nt

[George II]

43. I just saw Elizabeth Warren on the floor of the Senate in front of the Clerk's desk. Good news.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Oh I figured there would be those loons

Am waiting to see the roll call tally...

[George II]

32. "NO"s added to the OP and elsewhere. The usuals. The debate over Mayorkas has now just started, BTW.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. The Senate posted the roll call and Teabagger Toomey was the "NV" (Not Voting)

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00011

NAYs ---13

Blackburn (R-TN)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cruz (R-TX)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Lankford (R-OK)
Marshall (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Tuberville (R-AL)

Not Voting - 1
Toomey (R-PA)

[BarbD]

6. Moving right along. n/t

[gademocrat7]

7. Congratulations, Secretary Pete!

[BComplex]

8. Yay!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. I'm assuming Hawley and Cruz voted No,

because that's what they do.

[Budi]

15. Congrats Pete!!! 💙

Good news !

[irisblue]

19. I sort of hope his nickname of Secretary Mayor Pete sticks. Future and past in one man

[wendyb-NC]

20. Yay!

He is such a star.

[LittleGirl]

22. Congratulations Pete!

I look forward to your service!
Fellow hometown citizen.

[AnnieBW]

23. Excellent!

Pete and Chasen are coming to DC!!!! If we ever have another Pride Parade here in DC, I know who's gonna be the Grand Marshall!

[Butterflylady]

25. Now things will get done!!!!

Secretary Pete:

[ancianita]

27. Great! He'll be great.

[BootinUp]

29. Yippee!

[TruckFump]

35. The usual fucked up suspects.

Wondering about Lindsey...guess he was being "charitable" and let a Biden nominee through.

[JDC]

39. my first thought also. the typical A-holes - Less Rand Paul.

[TruckFump]

44. Top of the Repuke Sen list: (IMO)

Cruz
Graham
Hawley
Paul

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge assholes...all of them!

[CaptainTruth]

37. Now do we get Infrastructure Week?

[Ferrets are Cool]

45. I am so ashamed and mad at my state (Alabama)

[My Pet Orangutan]

46. Kennedy -Aye?

Surprising?

[RicROC]

47. start their family?

Now that Pete can settle down to a 9-5 job again, will they start their family? They had talked about it during the presidential campaign.

[TNNurse]

48. Yes, both of our TN Trump Whore Senators voted no.

They are beyond reason. Incapable of thinking for themselves.

Hagerty is new, I am pretty sure he just does what Marsha tells him to do.

[BobTheSubgenius]

49. I'm surprised it passed so easily, to be honest.

I'm very happy that it did, of course. I hope it doesn't come with a quid pro quo demand.

[Budi]

50. Filibuster proof.

Democrats vote to start muscling $1.9T bailout package through without Republican support after Joe Biden told GOP senators their $600B offer was 'too small


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9216155/amp/Democrats-vote-start-muscling-1-9T-bailout-package-without-Republican-support.html

[Sapient Donkey]

52. Have any of them given their so-called "reasons" for voting no?

[dsc]

53. So there are no votes from

Florida (2), Alabama (2), Tennessee (2), and one each from Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Carolina, and Arkansas. The old Confederacy, with barely over a fifth of the Senate, provided all but one of the no votes. It also had a majority, albeit a bare one, of no votes. On the plus side, two yes votes from MS, as I live and breathe.

[George II]

54. Yes, and I thought similar to you. The only non-deep south NO was from Missouri, which is borderline

[salin]

55. There aren't many times I feel appreciative of my Hoosier senators, but this is one of them.

Both voting for our home-state rising star.