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Democrats seek direction in New York special
Albany :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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It was still unclear Friday who had applied by Thursday’s deadline or if further applications would be accepted. A spokesman for the 11 county chairmen tasked with picking a nominee in Army Secretary-designate John McHugh’s (R-N.Y.) district wasn’t commenting...
Tags: confirmation hearing, John McHugh, New York
GOP accused of Sotomayor 'racial politics'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have played the race card in opposing the judge, a senior Democrat said Sunday. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy , D-Vt., appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," blasted GOP opponents for employing...
Tags: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate GOP, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, confirmation hearing, Republican Party, senator judiciary, judges sonia
Sotomayor wins GOP backers after smooth hearings
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility McConnell planned a speech Monday in which he'll say the 55-year-old appeals court judge's past statements demonstrate an "alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice," and question her ability to separate her sympathies and prejudices from...
Tags: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, U.S. Supreme Court, Senate Republican, court nominee, Judge Sotomayor, nominee sonia, Kentucky Republican, confirmation hearing, minority leader
1:40 p.m. — Confirmation hearing for appointed DYA director
Tamuning :: Guam | 4 months ago
Credibility A confirmation hearing on the appointment of Vicente Anthony Ada as director of Department of Youth Affairs is scheduled for 2 p.m. today. Ada was selected by Gov. Felix Camacho to replace Chris Duenas, who was transferred to head the Department of Land...
Tags: confirmation hearing
Sotomayor confirmation hearing to begin
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Republicans will likely question Sonia Sotomayor 's judicial impartiality at her confirmation hearing for the U.S...Sen. Jeff Sessions , R-Ala., the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, has focused on President Barack Obama 's remark about wanting...
Tags: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court Justice, Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Sotomayor, confirmation hearing, John Cornyn, Senate Republican, Judge Sonya Sotomayor, Barack Obama
Lawyers' group rates Sotomayor 'well qualified'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Bush administration refused to consider or accept the ABA evaluations, saying the organization had given lower ratings for some conservative nominees, and that the ABA had publicly held liberal positions on social and political matters. Officials in the...
Tags: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee, court nominees, Supreme Court, nominees sonia, ABA, confirmation hearing, News Senate, Washington
Census Pick Groves Rules Out Sampling
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out using statistical sampling to adjust the results of the 2010 census, apparently quelling Republican concerns and making his confirmation likely next week. Robert Groves, director...
Tags: statistical sampling, Barack Obama, Census Bureau, University of Michigan, survey researcher, president barack, confirmation hearing, Senate Homeland Security
FEMA nominee promises to improve agency response
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Craig Fugate , nominated as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, promised to hold the agency to a much higher standard than how it responded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina . Katrina when the federal government showed up late and...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, higher standard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Craig Fugate, FEMA, hurricanes katrina, disaster response, confirmation hearing, fema nominees
Ross confirmation hearing testy at times
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Wednesday was the first day of confirmation hearings for Ross, with the Legislature scheduled to vote April 16 on whether he should be the state’s new attorney general. “Nobody ever accused me of tippy toeing around the issues. Now I’m asking for this...
SKorea to introduce stimulus budget, says incoming finance chief
Seoul :: South Korea | 9 months ago
Credibility South Korea's government will introduce a supplementary budget to try to stop the economy sliding deep into recession, the finance minister-designate said Friday. Yoon Jeung-Hyun was speaking at a parliamentary confirmation hearing, a day after a state-run...
Tags: Yoon Jeung-hyun, Yoon Jeung-Hyun, confirmation hearing, finance minister, South Korea
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