Senate Plans Monday Cloture Vote on Commerce Nominee Raimondo
The Senate plans a Monday vote to invoke cloture on commerce secretary nominee Gina Raimondo. The chamber is likely to vote in favor of cloture, despite some Republicans’ concerns that Raimondo didn’t unequivocally rule out rolling back restrictions on Huawei…
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and other Chinese telecom and tech firms. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, placed a hold on Raimondo over the issue (see 2102050064), which remained in place as of Thursday, his office said. The cloture vote is to happen immediately after a 5:30 p.m. vote to confirm Miguel Cardona as education secretary. A successful cloture vote would set the chamber up to confirm Raimondo next week.