Sentences with phrase «confirmation hearings»

She has never run, taught in, attended or sent a child to an American public school, and her confirmation hearings laid bare her ignorance of education policy and scorn for public education itself.

On Jan. 11, the Senate education confirmation will hold confirmation hearings on Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire selected by President - elect Donald Trump to be the next U.S. education secretary.

During Senate confirmation hearings in January, DeVos created more controversy with her responses to several questions asked by members of the confirmation committee.

WHEC in Rochester spoke to Renaissance Academy Charter School families and educators about how charters are providing much - needed options in the city, in light of the Betsy DeVos confirmation hearings.

During Betsy DeVos» contentious confirmation hearings, she was asked few questions about her evaluation of the Obama administration's controversial interpretation of the law that bans sex discrimination in schools to include gender identity.

The unorthodox nomination of a corporate rescue artist to be California's next state school superintendent died quietly late last month when Sanford Sigoloff withdrew prior to confirmation hearings.

One can only hope that Sandra O'Connor does not see this movie before her confirmation hearings.

While the record was expected, the joint announcement by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration came in the midst of Senate confirmation hearings for President - elect Trump's cabinet nominees, several of whom have expressed doubts about established climate science, as has Trump himself.

The White House nominated all three researchers for the DOE jobs in November 2013, and all received glowing reviews at subsequent Senate confirmation hearings.

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

AAAS is providing an online resource — «First 100 Days» — with regular updates on Cabinet confirmation hearings and other federal government activities of interest to the scientific community.

On his way to the first of six meetings on Capitol Hill as part of his inaugural participation in Climate Science Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Beyond the Iran deal, Mr. Corker's committee holds confirmation hearings on Mr. Trump's ambassadorial appointments.

But in state Senate confirmation hearings, DiFiore must answer for her propensity for closed - door dealings on the panel.

Beyond Monday, we're continuing to watch confirmation hearings out of Washington, D.C. as President - elect Donald Trump's nominees to top positions are vetted by the Senate.

Goodwin Liu, a federal judicial nominee, faced intense scrutiny from Senate Republicans over his liberal views and his preparation for his confirmation hearings.

Judge Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's choice to fill the seat that has been open since Justice Antonin Scalia's death a year ago, will begin confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 20, the panel's chairman said last week.

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.

However, it makes clear it has «serious reservations» about adopting US - style confirmation hearings.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said President - elect Donald Trump's emerging cabinet raises «serious questions» that he hoped will be aired during confirmation hearings.

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.

Senate Republican leaders said there will be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with Obama's nominee to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, all but slamming shut any prospects for an election - year high court confirmation.

As nine of his cabinet picks head to Capitol Hill this week to kickoff a series of Senate confirmation hearings, Trump says he thinks the nominees are «going to do very well» in the grueling question - and - answer sessions.

According to a Quinnipiac University national poll, by a 52 to 40 percent majority, Americans believe that U.S. Attorney General Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearings.

As U.S. Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Trump's appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet - level nominees.

More than half of those who responded to a new Quinnipiac poll released this week said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his Senate confirmation hearings when he said he «did not have communications with the Russians» and should resign because of it.

An environmental group and several Democratic senators are demanding a review of the personal email account of Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, after he said during confirmation hearings that he never used that account for official business as Oklahoma state attorney general.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. last year — encounters he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings — fueling calls for him to either resign or recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

During the third day of confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, a theme emerged: Many of Trump's cabinet nominees have serious disagreements with him on policy

While Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch answered questions during his confirmation hearings, the U.S. Senate's top Democrat, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, questioned whether he should be confirmed at all amid an FBI investigation into Trump's campaign.

Speaking before the start of confirmation hearings in Washington, Sonya Sceats, Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture, said:

WASHINGTON — Rep. Peter King said Senate Republicans should meet with and hold confirmation hearings on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland — and then reject him in committee or in a floor vote.

As longtime Nassau GOP chairman Joseph Mondello readies for Senate confirmation hearings for the ambassadorship to Trinidad and Tobago, his top lieutenant, Joseph Cairo, has emerged as a top prospect to succeed him.

Joseph Mondello, chairman of the Republican Committee, now awaits Senate confirmation hearings.

President - elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, met Monday in Washington, D.C. with a team of national security experts — including Rep. Peter King and veterans of President George W. Bush's administration — to discuss foreign policy ahead of his confirmation hearings, the Seaford congressman said.

Only five of the seven slots will be filled, due to a mandatory retirement and delays by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Senate over confirmation hearings.

The Senate did not give a reason for delaying the confirmation hearings.

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

In January, 2 On Your Side reported on accusations of potential wrongdoing lodged against Collins, which picked up national attention during the confirmation hearings of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price, who also bought the stocks.

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.

From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings; to that against the CEO of BOST; to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister; and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives; they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption.

In the Brennan confirmation hearings, the ethics of drones became the subject of debate, but it tended to remain within the confines of practical ethics, emphasising questions about legal permissibility, rules of engagement etc..

«From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings to that against the CEO of BOST, to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption,» he noted with pride.

Party and movement leaders vowed to ruin Clinton's presidential honeymoon, and the early confirmation hearings were especially bruising.

He followed the testy confirmation hearings for Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of the Department of Education, whose strong support of school choice made her a target of teachers» unions.

The United States Catholic Conference publicly released her «apology» before the confirmation hearings, thus, as one political observer put it, «clearing the air» of the charge of anti-Catholicism.

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is in his second day of confirmation hearings and one of today's questions was about landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.

Sarah's post reminds me strongly of watching defenders of Clarence Thomas speak of him during his confirmation hearings.

All this takes me back to questions I raised in a prior post about the impending confirmation hearings of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court: Does religion matter?

At his Senate confirmation hearings, Mr. Quarles indicated he favored a lighter regulatory touch in financial services.