Jeff Sessions Floor Vote

Senate calendar latest issue executive calendar latest issue pdf previous meeting wednesday jul 22 2020 the senate convened at 10 00 a m.

Jeff sessions floor vote.

Senate calendar latest issue executive calendar latest issue pdf previous meeting thursday jun 18 2020. A majority was required for the nomination to proceed. But after a brief controversial stint as u s. Senate for 20 years from 1997 to 2017.

7 a few of them gathered in sessions s fifth floor office as john kelly then trump s chief of staff delivered the news. 3 record votes were taken. The senate voted wednesday night to confirm sen. As of 8 39 p m.

And adjourned at 8 55 p m. Jeff sessions survived his first test floor vote thursday putting him on the path to win confirmation as the next attorney general. Alabama primary runoff election. Jeff sessions represented white people in alabama in the u s.

Tuberville had received 153 789 votes 63 1 and sessions had 89 761 votes 36 9 in unofficial returns. 37 the pivotal votes against sessions came from his home state s democratic senator howell heflin of alabama. Position of alabama senator jeff sessions on the voting rights. It then split 9 9 on a vote to send sessions nomination to the senate floor with no recommendation this time with specter in support.

The day after an unusually tense conflict on the senate floor the chamber voted 52 47 wednesday evening to clear sen. Daily digest latest issue congressional record latest issue pdf tentative floor schedule. At about 10 a m on nov. Sessions asked kelly if he could at least.

The senate confirmed the nomination of senator jeff sessions r ala as our nation s attorney general on the evening of february 8 by a near party line vote of 52 to 47. Jeff sessions r ala whose record on civil and voting rights as a federal. The 53 45 vote saw two democrats join the gop in voting to. Who didn t support sessions hugged him on the senate floor.

Attorney general the 73 year old found himself.