Financial vetting of Trump's rich Cabinet picks proceeding slowly
Preparation for confirmation hearings can take weeks or even months
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SOME of President-elect Donald Trump's most prominent Cabinet nominees - with their millions in assets and complex business arrangements - are moving unusually slowly through the government's arduous financial disclosure examinations, threatening the quick start promised for the new administration and raising Democratic concerns that their confirmations could short-circuit customary ethical safeguards.
On Thursday, the ranking Democrats on all 16 Senate committees released a statement saying they would block confirmation votes until Mr Trump's nominees had cleared FBI background checks, completed financial disclosure statements and ethics agreements approved by the federal Office of Government Ethics, and "satisfied reasonable requests for additional information".
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, that panel's ranking Democrat, engaged in a public spat over Mr Cardin's request for three years of tax returns from Exxon Mobil's chief executive, Rex Tillerson, the nominee for secretary of state.
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