The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday along party lines, 13-11, to advance the nomination of Scott Turner to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as Democrats and Republicans split over procedural, rather than substantive, issues.
Ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the committee to postpone the vote until it receives the FBI background check on Turner, a former NFL player who was head of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in the first Trump administration.
“There is no reason to anticipate a problem, but it would be irresponsible for this committee to vote on a Cabinet nominee without his background check, and it would not be consistent with committee precedent,” Warren said.
