The article announces the nominations of Democratic Representative from North Carolina Melvin Watt to head the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency and lawyer Patricia Ann Millett for the U.S. States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which are both confirmed by the Senate.PETERS...
摘要: The article announces the nominations of Democratic Representative from North Carolina Melvin Watt to head the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency and lawyer Patricia Ann Millett for the U.S. States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which are both confirmed by the Senate.年份...
In sponsoring Senate Resolution 116, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) stated his view that because the nominations were for “noncontroversial positions,” they should be confirmed on the floor of the Senate by “unanimous consent”—meaning they are all approved at the same time by a single...
history, those failed nominations often have long-term implications both for the administration itself, but also for how future nominees are judged," said Tevi Troy, a presidential historian, former White House aide and author of "Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from ...
The confirmation backlog also places this strain on our government. Every day nominees are delayed represents another day without them in office. And that makes it harder for the government to meet its responsibilities. The nomination before the Senate -- these nominations before the Senate are vi...
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. If confirmed by the Senate, Branstad would assume the post at a time of heightened U.S.-China tensions in the wake ofTrump speaking on the phone with the president of Taiwan Friday. Taiwan is self-ruled, but China claims the island nation as one of its ...
Those facts are borne out in documentation provided by those entities upon request, or otherwise publicly available, and were confirmed by campaign spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk. But the situation gnawed at him, particularly after his mother and adoptive father divorced. “I shared a name with no...
In 1960, Nixon and Kennedy each won nominations for the top of the Republican and Democratic tickets for president, respectively. While Kennedy was on an upswing when September came around — telling Protestant ministers in Houston that he could serve both his country and his church as a Roman...
Trump was indicted in August 2023 on four counts relating to conspiring to overturn the results, which were all dismissed in November 2024, following his reelection to the presidency. Both Trump and Biden ran for their party's nominations in the 2024 election, but Biden dropped out of the ...
He was confirmed president on Aug. 3, 2005 by the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad presented himself as a populist, focusing on issues such as poverty and social justice. He was very active in foreign affairs, vigorously defending Iran's nuclear program against the...