GOP Looks Tacky in Vote on Sotomayor
Senate Republicans locked arms against Sonia Sotomayor yesterday … or would have, if they’d bothered to stay for the Judiciary Committee’s vote. Instead, half ducked out, leaving Jeff Sessions to...
View ArticleGOP Uses Van Jones to Rebel Against Czars
Republicans have groused for months that Barack Obama has too many “czars,” high-ranking, specialized advisers that, they complain, skirt congressional approval. Now they have a poster boy for their...
View ArticlePatrick Kennedy Slams Scott Brown
Scott Brown sped up his swearing-in because despite having touted his independence during his Senate campaign, "he's in the tank for the Republicans," says Patrick Kennedy, predecessor Ted Kennedy's...
View ArticleClinton-Era Emails Show a Political, Blunt Kagan
Elena Kagan shows herself to be hands-on, political, and more than a little, shall we say, blunt, in thousands of pages of emails released by Bill Clinton's presidential library. The release is the...
View ArticleWhat Senators Should Ask Elena Kagan
The process Elena Kagan once derided as a "vapid and hollow charade" gets under way tomorrow when the solicitor general appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee as President Obama's second Supreme...
View ArticleKagan Refuses to Discuss Her Legal Views
Elena Kagan began today’s round of confirmation questioning by declaring that it would be inappropriate for her to discuss how she might rule on future Supreme Court cases. That's ironic, the New York...
View ArticleGOP Fires Up the Grill for Clinton, Kerry
Both Hillary Clinton and her would-be successor John Kerry are headed to Capitol Hill: Clinton is testifying today about the Benghazi attack, while Kerry is getting ready for confirmation hearings...
View ArticleSenate Committee Approves Kerry for State Gig
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee surprised exactly no one today by putting its seal of approval on John Kerry's nomination for secretary of State nomination. It would have been quite the upset if...
View ArticleMcCain: Let's Not Filibuster Chuck Hagel
John McCain wasn't easy on Chuck Hagel during the defense secretary nominee's confirmation hearing—but it looks as though he and other Republicans are letting up. (After all, the two were friends...
View ArticleJanet Yellen: US Economy Still Needs Fed's Help
Janet Yellen said today that the US economy has regained ground lost to the Great Recession but still needs the Federal Reserve's support because unemployment remains too high at 7.3%. Yellen is...
View ArticleIran's US Navy Hack Lasted 4 Months
A cyberattack last year saw Iran infiltrate the US Navy's unclassified intranet—and it took US officials some four months to "eliminate the bad guys from our networks," a top US official tells the Wall...
View ArticleConfirmation Controversies Start Today With Jeff Sessions
Let the fighting begin: The confirmation hearing for Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, is scheduled for Tuesday, and in a letter to the Senate Judiciary...
View ArticleSessions: Charges of Racism Are 'Damnably False'
Some of the early highlights from Tuesday's confirmation hearing of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general, via the Hill , the New York Times , Politico , and the...
View ArticleTrump Health Pick 'Offended' by Questions About Stocks
Donald Trump's choice for health secretary declared himself to be "offended" by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's questions about his investments during Wednesday's Senate Health Committee hearing. Warren was...
View ArticleGOP to Dems Skipping Cabinet Votes: 'Stop Acting Like Idiots'
Senate confirmation hearings for President Trump's Cabinet choices got heated Tuesday—or at least the ones that took place. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee angered not only by Trump's recent...
View ArticleGOP Senator Will Vote No on Trump's 'Dangerous' EPA Pick
One Republican senator is breaking ranks to vote against President Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, who has sued the EPA 14 times. Maine's Susan Collins says she "has...
View ArticleDems Couldn't Stop It: Pruitt New Head of EPA
After a rough couple of days in the stocking of President Trump's administration, the Senate got back to business and pushed at least one more through. Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt will head the...
View ArticleAs Gorsuch Hearing Begins, Ex-Student Levels a Criticism
Judge Neil Gorsuch emphasized "the importance of an independent judiciary" on Monday in opening remarks to a Senate Judiciary Committee bitterly divided over his nomination to the Supreme Court,...
View ArticleQuestion From Teenage Boy Leaves Gorsuch Speechless
Sometimes you just need to know what a Supreme Court nominee is willing to fight—be it 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck. The "would you rather" question, often debated on Reddit , was one...
View ArticleWoman May Go to Prison for Laughing in Sessions' Hearing
Laughter may be the best medicine, but it's a lawyer, not a doctor, that a Code Pink activist now needs for guffawing during Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing. HuffPost...
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