White House 'Strongly Supports' Judicial Nominations Effort
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) picked up a ringing endorsement from the White House on Tuesday for trying to force Republica...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) picked up a ringing endorsement from the White House on Tuesday for trying to force Republica...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fired a warning shot to Republicans on Friday: Stop blocking President Barack Obama's executi...
AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 03.23.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's appointments to two key agencies during the Senate's year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Faced with the prospect of increasingly lengthy court vacancies, the White House on Wednesday formally renominated more than 40 judicial...
Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
TPMDC | Evan McMorris | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
The New York Times | Helene Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Posted 05.25.2011
President Barack Obama announced five nominees for administration posts on Monday, including several ambassadors. The full list, pending confirmation...
The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Think Progress | Ryan Powers | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.14.2012