Congratulations to Cory Booker who was just sworn in as a U.S. Senator a few minutes after noon. The Democrats now have 55 members in their caucus. Sen. Booker’s first vote will be a cloture vote to end debate on the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The vote is occurring as I write this and a lot of Republicans are voting no.
I’ll be interested to see how Sen. Booker adapts to the non-stop infantile trolling of his colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
I do think he has some skill sets to build congenial relationships on the other side of the aisle, but I just don’t know how much that is worth these days.
Update [2013-10-31 12:29:54 by BooMan]: Vote is not over but it is already clear that there are 41 votes to block cloture. So, Booker’s first vote involved the Republicans blocking a black nominee with a filibuster.
