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Senate panel delays vote on nominee to lead immigration agency
Source: Reuters
POLITICS FEBRUARY 13, 2019 / 10:19 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Senate panel delays vote on nominee to lead immigration agency
Sarah N. Lynch
2 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee postponed a vote on Wednesday on whether to approve Ronald Vitiello, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Committee Chairman Ron Johnson did not elaborate on the reasons for the delay, but the postponement came one day after ICE’s employee union urged lawmakers to block the nomination amid concerns about past racially tinged and controversial comments Vitiello made on Twitter.
“We are going to hold over the ICE director nomination,” Johnson said. “There are some issues that continue on that, so we will not be voting on the ICE director.”
This is the second time the Senate panel has delayed voting on Vitiello’s nomination.
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Senate panel delays vote on nominee to lead immigration agency
Sarah N. Lynch
2 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee postponed a vote on Wednesday on whether to approve Ronald Vitiello, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Committee Chairman Ron Johnson did not elaborate on the reasons for the delay, but the postponement came one day after ICE’s employee union urged lawmakers to block the nomination amid concerns about past racially tinged and controversial comments Vitiello made on Twitter.
“We are going to hold over the ICE director nomination,” Johnson said. “There are some issues that continue on that, so we will not be voting on the ICE director.”
This is the second time the Senate panel has delayed voting on Vitiello’s nomination.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration/senate-panel-delays-vote-on-nominee-to-lead-immigration-agency-idUSKCN1Q21X2