INTERVIEW – NIELS LESNIEWSKI – (NEELS LES-NEW-SKEE) – Senior Senate reporter for Roll Call
- TOPIC: Nomination Wars: Senate Democrats vs Trump Nom picks – Sessions, SCOTUS, etc
- Trump’s Immigration Order to Test Sessions, Supreme Court Pick. (Roll Call) — The Senate should buckle up for a rough week. The bipartisan concern and outrage over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting access of immigrants from seven countries has likely ended any chance there will be smooth confirmation of additional members of the president’s national security team.
- U.S. Senate advances nomination of Tillerson as Secretary of State
- Senate committee vote on Jeff Sessions AG nomination is Tuesday. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Tuesday on the nomination of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to lead the U.S. Justice Department. The committee is set to meet Jan. 31 at 9:30 a.m. ET (8:30 a.m. CT). Sessions’ Attorney General nomination is the first item on the agenda. Video of the meeting will be available here once it gets under way. Tomorrow’s meeting comes a week after Democrats on the committee pushed for delay saying they needed more time to review more 200 pages of written responses to questions posed to President Donald Trump’s AG pick.
- Senate Dems will filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy.
