Topic: Confirmation Hearings
The Syrian opposition is becoming "more cohesive" and "more broadly representative" of the country as a whole, a US official said Friday.Mark Toner, the State Department's deputy spokesman, told CNN that a real opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was beginning to ...
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke won unanimous Senate confirmation Wednesday as ambassador to Beijing, becoming the first Chinese American to hold the prestigious and difficult diplomatic post.Locke, whose grandfather came from China to the United States on a steamboat, promised during his ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday confirmed three of President Barack Obama's senior Justice Department nominees, including long-stalled Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who drew broad Republican opposition.Senator Charles Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, voiced "serious concerns" about Cole's ...
President Barack Obama's pick for envoy to Kabul warned America could not afford the "disastrous" consequences of walking away from Afghanistan, as debate raged over a pending US troop drawdown.Ryan Crocker acknowledged at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that making progress in ...
Gary Locke, the nominee to be the next US ambassador to China, promised Thursday he would be a forceful advocate for human rights while seeking broad cooperation with Beijing.Locke, the commerce secretary who would be the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing, told ...
Proposals in the Senate would improve a process that doesn't work wellPresidential nominees for positions requiring Senate confirmation are closely scrutinized in a process that can take months and get bogged down by partisan wrangling.In a recent piece in The Washington Post, ...
Former California CIO Teri Takai has been appointed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates as the Defense Department's CIO, DOD announced this morning. According to the announcement, Takai will also temporarily serve as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Networks and Information Integration ...
The title of a CNN article released on May 12, 2010 is " Obama chooses Elena Kagan for Supreme Court" (Web-site/URL: "Kagan is a "trailblazing leader" who is "OPEN TO A BROAD ARRAY OF VIEWPOINTS" and is a proven "consensus builder". Kagan ...
Anita Hill is refusing to apologize for accusing then-Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her, in an issue that Thomas' wife has reopened 19 years after his confirmation hearings.. Thomas' wife, Virginia, had left a voicemail message on Hill's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said on Tuesday she called the woman at the center of his 1991 confirmation hearings scandal and one news report said she asked Anita Hill to consider apologizing for "what you ...
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Confirmation Hearings For Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Continue
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ICC Confirmation Hearings day 2
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Hague confirmation hearing updates
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