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Senate Confirmation Floor Votes On Yellen, Blinken Possible Today: C-SPAN

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C-SPAN's Craig Caplan tweets: "Senate votes today to confirm Gen Lloyd Austin as Defense Sec. House 326-78 & Senate 69-27 both approved waiver Thurs allowing Austin, who retired from military in 2016, to serve in DoD top civilian post before completing 7yr waiting period. Senate confirmation floor votes are also possible today on Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen (Senate Finance Cmte votes at 10amET [1500GMT, 1600CET] today on her nomination) and Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken."

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