Obama Appointees Blocked

Top Senators Seek Deal On Rules For Presidential Nominations

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Senior senators are negotiating to reduce the 1,400 presidential appointments subject to time-consuming Senate confirmation, hoping...

Quiet Deal On Obama Judicial Nominees Unfolds In Senate After Prolonged GOP Blockade

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama's non-controversial judici...

Obama Judicial Appointees BLOCKED By GOP: President Getting Fewer Nominees Confirmed Than Nixon

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Oba...