Obama Nominees

Obama Announces State Department Nominations For OSCE, Portugal And Others

Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics


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

Ryan Grim

Reid To Push Dem Senators To Fight GOP Obstruction

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics


When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Thursday to blast Republicans for blocking President Obama's nominees for key agencies...

Harry Reid Excoriates GOP For Stalling Nominees On Senate Floor

Roll Call | Jessica Brady | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) excoriated Republicans on Thursday for stalling more than 200 executive and judicial nominees that in some ...

Nine Obama Nominees Being Held Up By GOP Lawmakers

Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


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...

Senate Republicans Holding Up Key Obama Nominees

Washington Post | Ruth Marcus | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Miriam Sapiro was nominated to be deputy U.S. trade representative in April. The Senate Finance Committee voted -- unanimously -- to confirm her in Ju...

Sam Stein

Nelson Open To Filibustering Obama Court Nominee (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics


President Obama said on Saturday that a Supreme Court nominee is coming soon, but Republicans in the Senate have spent weeks working to frame the type...

Filbusters and Holds Have No Place on Confirmations

Sandy Maisel | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Sandy Maisel

Holds are inherently undemocratic. The filibuster was never meant to be used for such purposes. And it is time for the United States Senate to mend its ways.

Pro-Choice Progress: A Primer on President Obama's First 100 Days

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics


Nancy Keenan

NARAL Pro-Choice America will mark this milestone with another reminder of how electing leaders who support the values of freedom and privacy does make a difference in the lives of women and their families.

Don't Give the Right Wing a Win on Obama's Nominees

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Nancy Keenan

The right wing has made these nominees their test case on how to derail President Obama's efforts to put qualified persons in key posts. Our goal is to make sure they fail this test.

Bipartisan Support Continues to Grow for Johnsen and Koh

Nan Aron | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Nan Aron

This weekend two prominent conservatives added their voices to the calls to confirm Dawn Johnsen and Harold Koh. Douglas Kmiec and Kenneth Starr have...

Why Did Republicans Boycott the Senate Judiciary Hearing on Hamilton?

Nan Aron | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics


Nan Aron

We can't let the Republicans block nominees who don't support their agenda. We can't continue to have a country where there is one set of rules for a few at the top and a different set for the rest of us.

Conservatives Rise Up Against Obama's First Court Pick

CBN | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics


Maybe the Obama administration should have nominated George Hamilton instead of David F. Hamilton. The hollywood actor may have an easier time at conf...

McCain To Meet With Obama's Iraq Ambassador Nominee

CNN Political Ticker | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics


Sen. John McCain will meet early next week with Chris Hill, President Barack Obama's nominee for ambassador to Iraq who McCain has questioned because...

Obama's Court Nominees Are Focus Of Speculation

New York Times | NEIL A. LEWIS | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON -- President Obama will soon begin naming a small stream of nominees to the federal appeals courts, administration officials said, a step t...