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The nomination of Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., to be the next Homeland Security secretary defeated a key hurdle in the confirmation process on Friday night, advancing to a final vote on Saturday. Her ...
A vote to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Defense secretary followed, passing with 51 votes, with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) voting no.
In a Senate speech, Lee said the confirmation vote should be delayed until after the presidential election, citing what he called the “political weaponization of the US government against Donald ...
The partisan divide over judicial nominations can also be seen in both the referral and the confirmation vote margins received by nominees over the past few decades. Since the 1990s, the votes by which the Judiciary Committee refers nominations to the full Senate have frequently fallen along party lines.
February 28, 2022 (nomination submitted to U.S. Senate) Date confirmed: April 7, 2022: Outcome: Approved by the U.S. Senate: Vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Votes in favor: 11: Votes against: 11: Result: Deadlocked on motion to report favorably: Senate vote to discharge the nomination from the Judiciary Committee; Votes in favor: 53 ...
On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
Former U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has officially been confirmed as the next U.S. secretary of state. The Senate confirmed him by a vote of 99-0 just hours after President Donald Trump was ...
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 ...