Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member and soon-to-be chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke glowingly of President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, after their meeting Wednesday.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, unofficially begins his confirmation process with a firm footing.
A rift is emerging among the incoming Senate Republican majority due to President-elect Donald Trump’s push for recess cabinet appointments.
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted “pedophiles must be rejoicing at the prospect” of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, nodding to one of the most contentious topics in Jacksons hearing: her past alleged leniency in child porn offender cases.
Durbin delivered a lengthy defense of Jackson in reference to GOP senators’ questions about her work representing a member of the Taliban.
Cruz said, “Civil commitment laws across the country would be struck down, releasing sexual predators” if her previous views were enacted.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Monday at the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson that the court is an intricate part of upholding the rule of law in the United States.
Far-left media invoked the “QAnon” conspiracy theory after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) exposed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes.”
Democrats in the media exploded at Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for exposing President Joe Biden’s judicial nominee’s criminal history.
Eleven Republican senators have demanded Tuesday a second confirmation hearing for nominee Vanita Gupta due to “her misleading statements, and for her refusal to respond to our written questions.”
President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated Tuesday that he would likely support new rules to force corporations to disclose their political spending activities, disclosure workforce diversity, and tighten disclosures around climate change, policies that would make businesses more susceptible to political pressure from the left.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), President Joe Biden’s nominee, to serve as secretary of energy.
Rep. Deb Haaland, nominated to run the Interior Department, defended joining protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.
Mike Pence’s chief of staff and the president of Catholic Vote warned against potential Democrat anti-Catholic bias during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling on the Senate to postpone the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, calling it both “irresponsible and dangerous to move forward with a hearing” following the news of two members of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is receiving dismal reviews from the usually-friendly liberal California media for her performance Thursday at the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) made a major admission during the effort he and fellow Democrats made to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Tuesday, noting that rather than Kavanaugh’s record, President Donald Trump is his main concern.
Barach Obama’s former DOJ attorney, Vanita Gupta, said at an anti-Kavanaugh protest on Tuesday that the Supreme Court nominee is a threat to civil and human rights.
Democrats are swooning over the accusation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh snubbed Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland, Florida mass shooting, when Guttenberg tried to shake his hand at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, that state’s GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, slammed incumbent Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Tuesday for not condemning a plot orchestrated by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to derail the opening days of Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
None of the ten Democrat senators up for re-election in 2018 in states won by Donald Trump in 2016 have commented publicly yet on the obstructionist antics of their Democrat colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Abandoning decorum, Senate Democrats interrupted the proceedings 62 times, without waiting for proper recognition from the chair, and many of them spoke out of turn.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court nomination hearing on Tuesday that if the country were to return to “an era of civility,” we would return to the “foundational, structural principles within our Constitution.”
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended the protests that interrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the “noise of democracy” — minutes after admitting that he and fellow Democrats had coordinated disruptions to the hearing.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) said Senate Democrats would be “held in contempt” if Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing were a courtroom.
Senate Democrats disrupted Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) opening statement during Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court that he and other Democrats participated in a conference call on how to disrupt the hearings.
WASHINGTON, DC — Mike Pompeo, U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of State (DOS), suggested during his confirmation hearing hosted Thursday by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that the administration will not withdraw from the controversial Iran nuclear deal, stressing that it will focus on fixing the pact instead.
Tuesday at his confirmation before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Neil Gorsuch responded to an accusation made by former Obama administration staffer Jennifer Sisk that he once told students women manipulate maternity leave. Sisk, a graduate of the University of Colorado
On the first day of confirmation hearings for Federal Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch to be named as a Supreme Court Justice, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) criticized what he referred to as the “Roberts court” and said Gorsuch taking a seat on the bench would further “infect” it.
On the first day of confirmation hearings for Federal Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch to be named as a Supreme Court Justice, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reminded the Democrats that during his confirmation hearing a decade ago for the federal seat he holds now, not one Democrat voted against Gorsuch.
During her now-infamous Senate tirade against the confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) criticized the former Alabama senator because his office suggested in a press release that a wealthy American corporation should hire Americans.
“I believe the climate is changing. I believe some of it is naturally occurring, but some of it is also caused by manmade activity” Governor Rick Perry has told a Senate Confirmation Hearing in an apparent bid to ward off Democrat objections to his appointment as Secretary of Energy.
An education watch coalition of grassroots parents and other citizens representing 27 states is letting the Senate know its concerns about education department secretary nominee Betsy DeVos.
Tillerson will advise U.S. Senators to that the United States should be “clear-eyed” about Russia, according to his prepared remarks released by the Trump campaign. Tillerson will also call for eliminating ISIS as an important step to thwarting radical Islamic terrorism.
Tuesday morning Sen. Jeff Sessions will face a Senate confirmation hearing where he will make his case for confirmation to be the next U.S. Attorney General.
