The Senate Finance Committee split evenly Wednesday on party lines in a vote on advancing Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee\u00a0Xavier Becerra, highlighting the GOP resistance to his nomination.<\/p>\n
The vote means Becerra’s nomination can still go to the full Senate, but there will be an added step of Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) moving to discharge the nomination from committee, followed by an added vote in the full Senate on discharging it.<\/p>\n
All Democrats on the committee voted for his nomination, and all Republicans voted against, on the evenly split panel.<\/p>\n
Will any Republicans support him on the floor?<\/strong>\u00a0It is unclear if any GOP senators will vote for his nomination in the full Senate.<\/p>\n Republicans have made Becerra a lightning rod for criticism, attacking him over what they say is a lack of health care experience, as well as his views on abortion and his support for “Medicare for All.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Senate Finance Committee split evenly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32336,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32335\/revisions\/32336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}