With a 51-49 majority, Senate Democrats have the raw numbers to push through POTUS's nominees. But a pair of high-profile recent picks have failed, due in part to concerns first raised by GOP lawmakers led by freshman SenEricSchmitt.
With a 51-49 majority, Senate Democrats have the raw numbers to push through President Joe Biden's nominees. But a pair of high-profile recent picks have failed, due in part to concerns first raised by Republican lawmakers led by freshman Sen. Eric Schmitt .
During Sohn's Feb. 14 Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Schmitt pointedly queried her over what he called discrimination against conservatives by prominent tech companies. Schmitt asked Sohn point-blank if she thought"disinformation should be censored." “Gigi Sohn was a terrible pick to be an FCC commissioner. We were able to kind of conduct that sort of oversight, ask tough questions, and she’s not moving forward,” Schmitt told the Washington Examiner.
Schmitt, at a March 2 committee hearing, said Missourians didn’t want “social cultural merits” to enter into aviation decision-making. “Let’s just say it’s taken me a little while to figure out how to get from here to there,” he said with a laugh during the interview. “From here to the chamber, we’ve got down pretty well, but still some of the office buildings and committee rooms — it’s good to have people who have been around this place for a little while guiding you along.”
And in a chamber where seniority counts, Schmitt is confronting the realities of what it means to be a freshman lawmaker. For one, the senator is operating in a temporary office in the basement of the Russell Senate office building.
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