The Senate voted Wednesday night to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions,
R-Alabama, to become the nation's attorney general after three days of
partisan acrimony over President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees.
The 52-47 vote proceeded along party lines, with
one exception: Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, crossed party lines.
Sessions himself voted "present."
Democrats spent more than 50 consecutive hours
on the Senate floor thundering away in opposition to two of the
president's most controversial nominees, and tensions boiled over
Tuesday when Republicans voted to formally rebuke Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
D-Massachusetts.
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