{"id":293732,"date":"2017-02-08T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/devos-confirmed-by-pences-decisive-vote\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:26:02","slug":"devos-confirmed-by-pences-decisive-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/devos-confirmed-by-pences-decisive-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"DeVos confirmed by Pence\u2019s decisive vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Senate confirms Donald Trump\u2019s pick via a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence, marking the first time in US history that a VP changes a 50-50 vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pence made history Tuesday by casting the decisive vote in favor of granting the Department of Education to billionaire Betsy DeVos.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats who were doing their best to reject DeVos were joined by Republican Senators Susan Collins, from Maine, and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska to reach a tie on the vote in the GOP-majority Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Pence, the former Indiana governor, took over the presiding chair and cast his vote after the draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the Republican side demanding a vote for an unqualified candidate,\u201d said top Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, who failed to recruit a third Republican to back his agenda. \u201cI hope against hope that another Republican will have the courage &#8230; [to] join us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the vote, the White House censured Democrats for their obstructionist moves against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/07\/509579\/Pence-saves-Trumps-notorious-pick\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate confirms Donald Trump\u2019s pick via a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence, marking the first time in US history that a VP changes a 50-50 vote. Pence made history Tuesday by casting the decisive vote in favor of granting the Department of Education to billionaire Betsy DeVos. Democrats who were doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}