Tag: Nominations

The Cato Institute's Mark Calabria (pictured second from the left) is a top critic of former President Barack Obama's Wall Street reform laws. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Libertarian finance guru heads to Pence’s office

Joseph Lawler · February 9, 2017 7:49 pm

Democrats have seized on Puzder's admission that he employed an illegal immigrant, among other issues. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News)

Top Democrats call on Trump Labor pick to withdraw

Susan Ferrechio · February 9, 2017 5:40 pm

"To whisper in a closed room behind closed doors that 'I am disheartened' and not [publicly] comment on what the president has done ... does not show independence," Schumer said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Schumer: Gorsuch’s ‘private whispers’ do not show independence

Susan Crabtree · February 9, 2017 4:46 pm

White House Agenda Stalls as Cabinet Confirmations Trickle Through

Michael Warren · February 9, 2017 10:00 am

"I have an interest in law enforcement. I have an interest in the rule of law," said Jeff Sessions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sessions resigns from Senate to be AG: ‘This is a special honor’

Kelly Cohen · February 9, 2017 1:28 am

The Senate voted 51-48 Wednesday evening to end debate on President Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Senate advances Tom Price nomination to lead HHS

Anna Giaritelli · February 9, 2017 12:42 am

Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General

Jim Swift · February 9, 2017 12:25 am

Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder will get his first confirmation hearing on Feb. 16, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Feb. 16 hearing set for Labor nominee Puzder

Sean Higgins · February 8, 2017 10:22 pm

Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch meets with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in her office on Capitol Hill. Fienstein was impressed by Gorsuch's background. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Feinstein calls Gorsuch ‘impressive’ — just what the Dem base wants to hear

David Freddoso · February 8, 2017 9:26 pm

Warren, D-Mass., said in an interview with CNN that she wasn't trying to fundraise off the moment and isn't thinking about 2020. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Warren says floor speech wasn’t about fundraising, despite sending fundraising email

Kyle Feldscher · February 8, 2017 6:39 pm

Schumer accused Republicans of holding the government hostage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Did Chuck Schumer think we’d just forget about 2013?

Philip Wegmann · February 8, 2017 4:14 pm

Warren Breaks Senate Rule, Prohibited From Debating Sessions Nomination

Jim Swift · February 8, 2017 4:12 am