ADVERTISEMENTWASHINGTON ― Senate Democrats deployed a dramatic eleventh-hour maneuver to deny committee votes to two of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks Tuesday, arguing that those nominees had lied to them. Explaining the boycott, Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said the two nominees “misled the public and held back important information about their backgrounds.”Tom Williams/Getty Images Sens. were part of the Democratic boycott of the committee votes on two of President Donald Trump's nominees Tuesday. “This is one of the most alarming things I’ve seen in my 40 years in the U.S. Senate,” Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said in the hearing Tuesday. In 2013, Republicans boycotted the committee vote on Gina McCarthy to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Source: Huffington Post January 31, 2017 15:45 UTC