For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was rejected by a Senate ...
On July 13, Mike Brown, director of the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), announced he was withdrawing his name from Senate consideration for the post of Under Secretary for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul F. deLespinasse New York Times reporter Carl Hulse recently noted that "the Republican manhandling of Judge Ketanji Brown ...
Trump didn’t single-handedly break the Senate’s confirmation process. But a single event turned the judicial confirmation process into the kind of pure, bare-knuckled partisan cage match it is today.
Key parts of President Biden’s agenda are falling victim to arcane Senate rules, and not just the filibuster. Dysfunction is slowing the Senate confirmation process to a crawl too, producing a backlog ...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is headed for a rocky Senate confirmation process to take on the role permanently as several Republican senators raise concerns about his credibility and ...
The decision by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire will ignite a much-watched confirmation process in which President Joe Biden will attempt to place another liberal on the high court.
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