NOUN
- a hearing held by the US Senate to gather information on whether to approve or reject candidates for high federal office who are nominated by the president
How To Use confirmation hearing In A Sentence
- CHETRY: One of Judge Sotomayor's most controversial cases that I'm sure will come up at the confirmation hearing is the so-called New Haven firefighters case that's now pending in the Supreme Court. CNN Transcript May 27, 2009
- Thanks so much for the links to the WSJ story pumping up the speculatory frenzy over the conference call at the center of Blagopaylooza (my "Name the Scandal" entry, btw) and the Politico "story" about that upright paragon of moral rectitude David Vitter's plan to call Bill to testify at Hillary's confirmation hearing. Where Are You, Angry Left?
- My objections to both direct election of Senators and live coverage of Congress have been rehashed passim ad nauseum, so I merely note them, and point to them as the real culprits rather than the confirmation hearings in abstracto, the villain of the piece in some comments above. Lawprof Bruce Ackerman says we should require Senate approval of senior White House staff positions.
- The new president's appointee for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, was asked about that at her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
- At his confirmation hearing last month, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the “next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyber-attack.”
- I suspect Kagan will tell any senator who asks that her comments 15 years ago were written in an academic vein, from the perspective of a curious legal scholar frustrated at having to endure the "vacuity" of confirmation hearings following the meltdown over the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork in 1986. Politics Daily
- C., refused to hold a Senate confirmation hearing on the nomination.
- In an interview with People magazine granted shortly after her husband made it through his famously contentious confirmation hearings, Ginni said, What [Anita Hill] did was so obviously political…Her allegations…remind me of the movie Fatal Attraction, or in her case, what I call the fatal assistant. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Yet the confirmation hearings were spent with the Republican senators denying that they knew what Alito would do as a justice and portraying him as an open-minded jurist without an ideology. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
- The vote came a week after Ms. Schapiro vowed in her confirmation hearing to "reinvigorate" the agency's enforcement division, under fire for failing to detect the Bernard Madoff Senate Confirms Schapiro
