Sentences with phrase «senate nomination hearing»
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R - Neb., during his Senate nomination hearing earlier today.
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White House physician Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination to be Veterans Affairs secretary Thursday after a Senate panel delayed a confirmation hearing to review allegations of improper behavior and management lapses.
Protests outside of the Dirksen Senate Office Building ahead of Rex Tillerson's nomination hearing https://t.co/EYC4KjYNxf
WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee holds hearing on nomination of Jerome Powell to be chairman of the Federal Reserve - 1500 GMT.
Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton talk during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing in 2013.
«In November 2016, Grassley said he would retain the policy used in the eight Obama years when the Senate Judiciary Committee would not set a hearing unless both home state senators returned blue slips,» Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond professor who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email.
That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.
The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the nominations of Mary Jo White to become chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on pending nominations.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said during his nomination hearing before the Senate Banking Committee in November 2017 that he would continue to have «meaningful» stress tests for banks in that range.
Lindsey Johnson, President and Executive Director of the U.S. Mortgage Insurers (USMI), today issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs» hearing on the nomination of Brian Montgomery for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner.
Tonight on the Senate floor, during a debate on the nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) attempted to read a letter from Coretta Scott King that had been persuasive in his previous hearing as part of an unsuccessful nomination to a federal judgeship.
Of the 29 failed Supreme Court appointees, there seem to have only been two that didn't have Senate hearings, one being Merrick Garland (Barack Obama's nominee), whose nomination expired on January...
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have said the nomination should be left up to the next president and do not plan to hold nomination hearings.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) called it «time for the Senate to do its job, hold hearings, assess his qualifications and vote on his nomination in a timely manner.»
Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pick for chief judge of the Court of Appeals, will have her nomination put to a hearing today at the state Capitol, where the Republican - led Senate Judiciary Committee will have the opportunity to question her and examine her credentials before making a recommendation to the full Senate.
Rep. Peter King is calling for hearings in the U.S. Senate to consider the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
A Senate committee voted along party lines to send the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general to the full Senate floor, after a contentious hearing in which Democrats questioned the Alabama Republican's ability to show independence from the White House.
Senate approval of Andy Puzder to lead the Department of Labor will hinge in large part on his testimony in a confirmation hearing tomorrow, as an unusually large number of GOP senators are reserving judgment on the nomination until they hear his explanation of several sensitive matters.
In testimony during the Senate's confirmation hearings last week, the local congressman for the 16th District, Jose Serrano, praised the nomination of native Bronxite Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But McDonald's nomination was rejected, 19 — 16, by the state Senate after a 13 - hour public hearing that was co-chaired by Tong.
Robinson's nomination now heads to the floor of the House and Senate for a vote, along with Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's last batch of 30 superior court judge nominees who had hearings on Monday.
President Trump hosts a Cabinet meeting and participates in the Celebration of Military Mothers... The Senate Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on the nomination of CIA deputy director Gina Haspel to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency... The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on the food stamp program... The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare hold a forum on «Why are Healthcare Prices So High, and What can be Done about Them?»
Republican leaders in the Senate have said they will not hold any hearing on Garland's nomination because Obama is a lame - duck President.
Coleman, popular with his former legislative peers, has so far encountered no problems in the legislature's confirmation process that has included a committee hearing but also requires approval of his nomination in yet - to - be scheduled votes by the House and Senate.
Graham made his remarks during the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination.
«I am going to protect all of the science, whether it's related to the climate or other aspects of what we're going to be doing,» Perry told a Senate committee during a 19 January hearing on his nomination.
Hartnett White's nomination had been in doubt since this past November, when she encountered tough questioning from both Democrats and Republicans during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Today the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a confirmation hearing on Majumdar's nomination as undersecretary.
«Withdrawing Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination is the right thing to do, and I believe it is past time for this administration to nominate a thoughtful environmental and public health champion to lead this critical office in the federal government,» Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said after hearing reports of White's plan to withdraw.
Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, leaves for a lunch break during a daylong Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination to be U.S. attorney general.
Although Senate aides say he will be confirmed, Mr. Payzant was grilled during a hearing and his nomination has been delayed.
On January 11 at 10:00 am the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will begin a hearing on the nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education.
Education Secretary Confirmation Hearing Betsy DeVos testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on her nomination for secretary of education in the Trump administration.
Because of her role in promoting school choice and her history of denigrating traditional public schools — she called them «a dead end» in 2015 — DeVos was controversial before her nomination, but became even more so after her Jan. 17 confirmation hearing before a Senate committee.
Over the last few weeks, Senate offices have been deluged with calls from constituents opposing Betsy DeVos» nomination for education secretary, a petition against the secretary - designate has generated over one million signatures and DeVos» remarks about the dangers of grizzly bears in schools during her rocky confirmation hearing launched several mocking Twitter hashtags.
Lindsey Johnson, President and Executive Director of the U.S. Mortgage Insurers (USMI), today issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs» hearing on the nomination of Brian Montgomery for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner.
Warren, who is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee which will hold a hearing on the nomination this week, also voiced concerns over DeVos» «deep record of activism, bankrolling and lobbying for policies that would privatize public education.»
Noel Francisco attends his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for his nomination to become solicitor general, on May 10, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson / Getty Images hide caption
The blatant invitation for her EGA colleagues to walk into her future Interior office so she could do the EGA's bidding soured her hearing and the Senate put her nomination on indefinite hold.
Energy Secretary Confirmation Hearing Former Governor Rick Perry (R - TX) testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his nomination to be energy secretary in the Trump administration.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R - AK) took the nomination of Jane Luxton to be NOAA deputy administrator and possible Climate Change Science Program director off the agenda of a committee hearing today after deciding not to proceed further with... Continue reading →
You have heard of the «blue slip» tradition in the Senate, where the Senators for a given state where a Federal judge sits must return the so - called blue slip for the nomination to procede?
The Senate held a Hearing on the nomination in April.
As you've probably already heard, yesterday, the Senate confirmed the nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.
Norm Pattis has One Question for Alito in the Supreme Court nomination hearings that begin Monday, Jan. 9, with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
But Attorney General - designate Alberto Gonzales earned no points for candor in yesterday's partisan Senate hearings on his nomination.
WASHINGTON — After this week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing with Rex Tillerson on his nomination to be U.S. Secretary of State, Planned Parenthood Federation of America released the following statement:
In the Senate, the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee will conduct a hearing on the nomination of Pamela Patenaude to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban...
A Senate Committee approved the nomination in January after a confirmation hearing, during which Carson revealed an intent to take a «holistic» approach to housing.