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Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, meeting with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that ...
Pam Bondi, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, sits on the day of a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15 ...
The Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112–166 (text)), signed into law on August 10, 2012, eliminates the requirement of Senate approval for 163 positions, allowing the president alone to appoint persons to these positions: [7] Parts of the act went into effect immediately, while other parts took effect ...
The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution. Before confirmation and during congressional hearings a high-level career member of an executive department heads this pre-confirmed cabinet on an acting basis.
August 17: Delegates at the Green Party's National Convention vote to nominate Jill Stein as the party's presidential candidate and Dr. Butch Ware as the party's vice presidential candidate. [ 416 ] August 19–22 : The 2024 Democratic National Convention is held in Chicago , Illinois .
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Neera Tanden for Office of Management and Budget director was pulled back, as were Trump’s first-term nominations of Andrew Puzder, Chad Wolf, and Ronny ...
In 1991, the nomination of Clarence Thomas was forwarded to the full Senate without recommendation after an earlier vote to give the nomination a favorable recommendation resulted in a tie. [39] [51] Without an affirmative vote, a nomination cannot proceed to the floor of the Senate, that is unless the Senate votes to discharge it