Tag: Nominations

The ad will run in states of Senate Finance Committee members who will vote on the Treasury nominee. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Liberal groups target Mnuchin vote with foreclosure ad

Joseph Lawler · January 25, 2017 6:11 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has at times been a thorn in the side of his Senate Republican colleagues, but on Tuesday, the former 2016 presidential candidate touted the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and said they are working together to ram through the GOP president's nominees. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Now Ted Cruz is praising Mitch McConnell’s leadership

Anna Giaritelli · January 25, 2017 4:12 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed cloture motions Tuesday evening on the nomination for President Trump's State secretary nominee Rex Tillerson. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Senate schedules votes on Tillerson, Chao

Anna Giaritelli · January 25, 2017 2:37 am

Get to know Supreme Court short lister Neil Gorsuch

Ryan Lovelace · January 25, 2017 12:01 am

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley was challenged to a push-up contest by a high school student late last week. The 83-year-old lawmaker won. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Grassley pleased with Trump’s progress on Supreme Court vacancy

Ryan Lovelace · January 24, 2017 11:18 pm

Nikki Haley, who is South Carolina's governor, succeeds Samantha Power as the U.S. representative. She passed in an easy bipartisan vote that was foreshadowed earlier Tuesday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where just two Democrats voted against her. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Senate votes 96-4 to confirm Haley as UN representative

Joel Gehrke · January 24, 2017 10:47 pm

Rep. Tom Price faced with four hours of questions ranging from vaccines to stock trades to drug prices.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The questions Tom Price answered, sort of answered and didn’t answer at all

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 9:43 pm

Small Business Administration Administrator-designate Linda McMahon was introduced by two of her opponents in past Connecticut Senate races, Democrats Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump pick to head SBA, wrestling’s Linda McMahon, receives warm Senate reception

Sean Higgins · January 24, 2017 7:33 pm

HHS nominee indicated he may be open to allowing the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tom Price drilled on drug negotiations

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 24, 2017 7:04 pm

Senate Budget Committee members Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., left, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., flank a large photograph held up that shows and compares Inauguration crowd sizes in 2009 and 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jeff Merkley quizzes Trump budget nominee on crowd sizes

Joseph Lawler · January 24, 2017 6:54 pm

"We lost our home. My car was repossessed in the driveway," she tells Senate committee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

SBA nominee McMahon’s bout with bankruptcy

Sean Higgins · January 24, 2017 6:41 pm

The Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmed former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be secretary of energy and Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., to be interior secretary. (AP Photos)

Energy and Environment

Votes delayed for Trump’s energy team

John Siciliano · January 24, 2017 6:26 pm