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highplainsdem

(49,044 posts) Mon Aug 7, 2017, 10:51 AM Aug 2017

Warren Blocks Trump's Pick for Antitrust Chief

Source: Bloomberg

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren put a "hold" on the confirmation of Makan Delrahim, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Justice Department’s antitrust division, delaying a vote until at least September, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Warren has expressed concern about concentration in some markets and the need for vigorous antitrust enforcement to reduce imbalances in the economy. She has described the nomination of Delrahim, a former lobbyist for Anthem Inc., as an indication that Trump’s administration will "put the interests of giant corporations ahead of the American people," according to an April 3 post on her Facebook page.

The two people who discussed the hold spoke on condition of anonymity. A spokeswoman for Warren declined to comment, and Delrahim declined to comment.

Delrahim’s name had been expected to be included in a package of confirmations that cleared the Senate Thursday. Warren’s hold meant his nomination couldn’t be advanced on the Senate floor.

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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-07/trump-s-pick-for-antitrust-chief-is-said-to-be-blocked-by-warren

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Warren Blocks Trump's Pick for Antitrust Chief (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2017 OP

get ready for a mega-pocohantas attsck. Chipper Chat Aug 2017 #1

I may be naive but can the Warren hold after expiration be put up by another senator ? turbinetree Aug 2017 #2

Technically yes. BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #5

It's about damn time the Democrats fought back and gave the Rethugs DK504 Aug 2017 #3

I started reading the first paragraph of this article a little too quickly and, by accident, Doitnow Aug 2017 #4

B-O-O-M goes Warren! YES!!! benld74 Aug 2017 #6

Block them all! 45 is illegitimate. ffr Aug 2017 #7

+1000! dchill Aug 2017 #8

Chipper Chat

(9,695 posts)

1. get ready for a mega-pocohantas attsck.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 10:54 AM

Aug 2017

His orange face is about to turn red.

turbinetree

(24,726 posts)

2. I may be naive but can the Warren hold after expiration be put up by another senator ?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 10:55 AM

Aug 2017

BumRushDaShow

(129,643 posts)

5. Technically yes.

Reply to turbinetree (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 12:43 PM

Aug 2017

The GOP did "holds" continually when in the minority (and when in the majority with our last Democratic President). See Tom Coburn, the master of the hold.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/washington/28coburn.html

More on this practice -

Senate 'holds': Where just one senator makes a majority
David Lightman - McClatchy Newspapers

February 19, 2010 3:31 PM

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The system was supposed to be more transparent. In 2007, the Senate began requiring senators to place notices in the Congressional Record within six days of declaring their intentions to place holds. Sloan's group found in December, however, that the new rules have been "disregarded by senators of both parties."

One end run is the practice of merely threatening a hold, rather than placing it. That has the same effect as placing a hold, but it doesn't trigger the formal process that requires disclosure.

Then there's the "tag team" hold, in which senators block someone for a few days, then hand off the hold to another senator, skirting the rule requiring timely disclosure.

At least three Republican senators reportedly used that tactic last year to delay the nomination of Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein as the White House's regulatory czar.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24574054.html