Headline Roundup • February 8th, 2017
GOP Votes to Silence Warren
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Washington Times
Fed up with what they said were out-of-bounds Democratic attacks on President Trump’s attorney general nominee, Republicans struck back Tuesday night, voting to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren for inappropriate behavior on the floor of the Senate.
HuffPost
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rose on Tuesday and objected to a speech Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was giving in opposition to the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general.
Politico
The Senate voted late Tuesday to tell Sen. Elizabeth Warren to sit down — and shut up. Almost instantly, social media propelled the episode into a national storyline.
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