Sentences with phrase «at one's confirmation hearing»

Q: At your confirmation hearings in 1993, you talked about how you hoped to see three or four women on the court.

He has weighed in at confirmation hearings for four of the nine justices now on the court.

That's why all his confirmation — all his answers at his confirmation hearings will be in the form of a question.

As often happens at confirmation hearings, senators tended to focus their questions on uniquely home - state issues.

, before testifying at her confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair nominee Jerome Powell on Nov. 28 testified at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.

Ben Carson, Trump's nominee to lead HUD, FHA's parent agency, said at his confirmation hearing last week that he wasn't consulted before the fee reduction and was disappointed it was announced in Obama's final days in office.

Matthew Petersen, Trump's district court nominee who struggled to answer basic legal questions at his confirmation hearing last week, has withdrawn his nomination, a White House official said.

Sessions, an early supporter of President Donald Trump and a policy adviser to the Republican candidate, did not disclose those communications at his confirmation hearing in January when asked whether «anyone affiliated» with the campaign had contact with the Russians.

The lawmakers noted Sini's testimony at his confirmation hearing in February 2016 that he would not seek the $ 194,000 - a-year job as top prosecutor.

Physics met politics at the confirmation hearing Tuesday for Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate scientist chosen by President - elect Obama to head the Department of Energy.

Relatedly, there is the assertion that I did not answer Senator Franken's question honestly at my confirmation hearing.

The Senate did not immediately vote to reconfirm FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to another term, even though he appeared at a confirmation hearing in July with the other nominees.

Even as Sessions outlined his vision for the department at his confirmation hearing, he was tailed by questions about whether he would withdraw from any investigation involving the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the election.

Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal chief economics commentator, and Joe Lavorgna, Natixis chief economist, discuss Federal Reserve Chair Nominee Jerome Powell's testimony at his confirmation hearing with the Senate Banking Committee.

Gottlieb made the statements at a confirmation hearing last Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to lead the CIA, appeared to have secured the votes to be confirmed after she declared the agency should not have undertaken its interrogation program in which Qaeda detainees were tortured after the Sept. 11 attacks — something she refused to do at her confirmation hearing last week.

While predicting that work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge could start as early as this summer, incoming Thruway Authority executive director Tom Madison revealed at confirmation hearings yesterday that financing for the new bridge is still very much a work in progress.

Christopher A. Wray, Trump's nominee to be FBI director, sought at his confirmation hearing to show lawmakers that he could protect the bureau's independence and resist pressure from the White House.

On Nov. 16, Anita Hill sat down at The Washington Post offices with five current and former Democratic lawmakers: Nita Lowey of New York, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia, Pat Schroeder of Colorado and Louise Slaughter of New York - all allies of Hill during her historic appearance at the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.

Judge Sheila Abdus - Salaam at her confirmation hearing to join New York State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, in 2013.

Less than two weeks before the Bush administration left office, the EPA announced that it would delay its long - awaited decision on whether to set a drinking water standard for perchlorate until the National Academy of Sciences weighed in on the issue.That announcement effectively punted the decision to current EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, who promised to regulate perchlorate at her confirmation hearing.

Moniz received bipartisan praise today at a confirmation hearing held by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, with lawmakers touting his past experience as a senior official at the Department of Energy (DOE) and his scholarly work on energy policy.

May 9, 2018 • Gina Haspel, nominee to be director of CIA, vows before a Senate committee at her confirmation hearing that she won't «restart a detention and interrogation program.»

President - elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary told lawmakers at her confirmation hearing that guns might have a place in schools due to the threat from grizzly bears.

Not only is she identified with a deeply loathed president, but she has distinct right - wing ties and she displayed a woeful lack of policy knowledge at her confirmation hearings.

Attendees also excoriated DeVos for asserting at her confirmation hearing that states should have the right to choose whether to enforce the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a piece of legislation that allows students with disabilities to receive an education tailored to their needs.

DeVos's oversight — or slight — came as no surprise given her admitted lack of awareness of the federal special education law at her confirmation hearing.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren arrives at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 1.

If at those confirmation hearings Roberts had instead compared judges to home team sportscasters, unapologetic partisans for the side that hired them, it's pretty unlikely he would've gotten the job.

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As I have said previously, it is possible that she will prove her doubters wrong at her confirmation hearings (if this nomination gets that far); but based on her credentials and everything we yet know about her, I don't see any reason to expect her to do so.

«Like most Jews, I know all too well that, over the centuries, the Jewish people have been a quintessential victim of religious persecution, ethnic cleansing, and demonization,» Saperstein said at his confirmation hearing in September.

Education Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos testified at her confirmation hearing in Washington that private, charter and other schools should be options if public schools aren't performing.

Senator Al Franken grilled DeVos at her confirmation hearing, drawing out her jaw - dropping ignorance of federal programs.

The Attorney General did not disclose those communications at his confirmation hearing in January.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis takes a look at what to watch for when the former Exxon CEO testifies at his confirmation hearing for secretary of State.

Wilbur Ross testifies at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Commerce Committee in January 2017.

At the confirmation hearing in January, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota alerted Sessions to allegations of contact between Russia and Trump aides during the 2016 election.

At his confirmation hearing, Powell avoided any direct critique or endorsement of the pending legislation, telling lawmakers fiscal policy was their domain.