How To Use Confirmation hearing In A Sentence
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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
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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?
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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.
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The new president's appointee for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, was asked about that at her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
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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.”
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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
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C., refused to hold a Senate confirmation hearing on the nomination.
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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
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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
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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
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Officials say President Bush is unlikely to want to subject himself to bruising confirmation hearings for a new director before the elections.
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(This week will be heavy with confirmation hearings; later this week, Eric Holder Jr. will appear in what may be the testiest hearing as he faces confirmation to be Attorney General.)
Live Blog: Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, we're going to go back to Washington, D.C., where Jeanne Meserve is standing by, not only following the confirmation hearings, but also the preinaugural activities taking place there -- Jeanne.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Inaugural Opening Ceremonies Get Under Way - January 18, 2001
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Recently, one friend "was ragging me mercilessly," he recalled, after noting that Mr. Mukasey slipped into Washingtonese during his confirmation hearings.
Mukasey Shows Independent Streak
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The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Solicitor General Elena Kagan are weeks away, but her nomination is already becoming a flash point in midterm Congressional campaigns as candidates in both parties try to exploit the coming court fight.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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The new president's appointee for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, was asked about that at her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
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Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just announced that his Senate Armed Services Committee will hold confirmation hearings next Thursday morning for the new Obama Pentagon subcabinet team.
And I Never Asked For The Truth But You Owe That To Me | ATTACKERMAN
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By the time I got to my confirmation hearing, all of the tough questions had been asked, and the senators were relatively gentle and friendly and very accommodating.
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The Senate leadership quickly gave its consent and we ran many of the confirmation hearings live.
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John Roberts will certainly need nerves of steel to survive what's expected to be a bruising Senate confirmation hearing.
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I blame both parties for treating every confirmation hearing as if it's a witch-hunt, or an opportunity to destroy someone rather than an interview meant to determine if someone's qualified to do a job.
Clinton again rips into vetting process
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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
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Senate confirmation hearings for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1990, Alito promised in writing that he would "disqualify" himself from cases involving companies he had a financial interest in, naming Smith Barney and Vanguard mutual funds.
Senators Snowe and Collins Must Work to Defeat Alito��s Supreme Court Nomination
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In a related story, Republicans have announced that Sotomayor's confirmation hearing will consist of three questions and a timed obstacle course.
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A couple of little afterthoughts from the Sotomayor confirmation hearings: Steve Benen points out that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) was very concerned about the possibility that Judge Sotomayor might be influenced by "foreign laws.
Foolish Inconsistency
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She is a judge who has foresworn judicial activism in her confirmation hearings, but who has a long record of it prior to 2009.
McCain to vote against Sotomayor
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Separately, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder testified at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Chertoff's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
