Senate Confirmation

Sen. Tom Cotton’s leading the group, but 50 Democrats in the Senate say they’ll vote to confirm Garland as the next U.S. attorney general.
/ March 4, 2021
For 14 years, Young has worked on the staff of the House Committee on Appropriations, the last four as its first Black woman staff director.
/ March 3, 2021
Austin pledged to “create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country with dignity.”
/ January 20, 2021
Granholm’s passion for energy issues was limited in Michigan only because, as one expert said, the governor “was ahead of her time.”
/ December 16, 2020
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed one of President Barack Obama’s key judicial nominees on Monday, completing an overhaul of the country’s second most powerful court into one dominated by Democratic-appointed judges…
/ January 14, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen on Monday as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fighting unemployment and a backer of the central bank’s efforts to spur the economy with low interest rates and massive bond purchases…
/ January 6, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to end a two-year Republican blockade that was preventing Richard Cordray from winning confirmation as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…
/ July 16, 2013