Source: Fox News
“Sen. Chris Murphy [D-CT] disrupted Senate Republicans’ plans to quickly confirm President Donald Trump’s national security nominees on Tuesday night when he objected to bypassing lengthy procedural votes that are routinely skipped. ‘Unfortunately, we were at the point of almost having a consent agreement to have a vote on the confirmation of John Ratcliffe to be the CIA director tomorrow. Not today, not yesterday, when it should have happened, but tomorrow,’ Senate Republican Conference Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said on the chamber floor. ‘But the senator from Connecticut has decided to object at the last minute.’ ‘I don’t really understand the objection to Mr. Ratcliffe. He was confirmed by the Senate to be the director of National intelligence. He was fully vetted through the bipartisan process in the Senate Intelligence Committee. We voted him out yesterday on a 14 to 3 vote,’ Cotton, also the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, continued.” (01/22/25)