Obama Nominations

White House 'Strongly Supports' Judicial Nominations Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) picked up a ringing endorsement from the White House on Tuesday for trying to force Republica...

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Harry Reid: I'll Ask Obama To Recess Appoint All Nominees If GOP Delays Continue

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fired a warning shot to Republicans on Friday: Stop blocking President Barack Obama's executi...

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Senate GOP's Move Awaited In Big Fight With Obama

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 03.23.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's appointments to two key agencies during the Senate's year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return ...

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Obama Renominates More Than 40 Judicial Candidates

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Faced with the prospect of increasingly lengthy court vacancies, the White House on Wednesday formally renominated more than 40 judicial...

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Institutionalized Irrationality: Republicans, the Senate, and US Foreign Policy

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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It will be up to the American people to decide whether the second decade of the 21st-century will be an example of the pathological effects of domestic politics, or a case of a country overcoming domestic divides to advance effective foreign policy.

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Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations Over Alabama Earmarks

TPMDC | Evan McMorris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary "blanket hold" on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, CongressDaily (s...

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Dawn Johnsen Nomination Sent Back To White House For 'Reconsideration'

The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 05.25.2011

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If passing health-care reform was the Senate's Christmas present to President Obama, then the confirmation of more than 30 of his nominees might as we...

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Nine Obama Nominees Being Held Up By GOP Lawmakers

Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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In recent weeks President Obama has come under fire recently for being "too cautious" and "too slow" in making appointments to vacant federal posts. M...

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Obama Nominees Still Being Stalled By Republicans

The New York Times | Helene Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost every day, the news releases go up on the White House Web site and go out to reporters: "President Obama announces more key administration post...

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Save the Senate: Bring Back the Filibuster

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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To end legislative gridlock, Sen. Reid should not get rid of the filibuster: He should bring it back. What we have today is a cheap and easy filibuster-lite; Reid should reestablish the real thing.

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Obama: New Ambassadors Nominations Include OSCE And Portugal

Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama announced five nominees for administration posts on Monday, including several ambassadors. The full list, pending confirmation...

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Obama Has Fewer Than Half of His Top Appointees In Place

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As President Obama tries to turn around a summer of setbacks, he finds himself still playing without most of his own team. Seven months ...

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Conservatives Holding Up Increasing Number Of Obama Nominees

Think Progress | Ryan Powers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservatives in Congress and in the media are attempting to block or delay a growing number of critical nominees for what amount to ideological witch...

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Obama: I Would Not Have Nominated Clarence Thomas

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back on the campaign trail, Sen. Barack Obama declared on Saturday that, had he been president at the time, he would not have nominated Clarence Thoma...

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