President Trump’s efforts to reshape the Federal Reserve stumbled on Monday, with one of his potential nominees for the Fed’s board withdrawing from consideration and another being enveloped by fresh doubts.
Read morePresident Donald Trump is nominating the Air Force general in charge of U.S. Strategic Command to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Read moreThe White House on Thursday withdrew the nomination of a longtime border official to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the Trump administration grapples with a massive increase in Southern border crossings that are straining the system with no easy solution.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said Thursday that he intends to nominate Herman Cain, a conservative political ally and former presidential candidate, for a seat on the Federal Reserve board.
Read moreInvoking the so-called “nuclear option,” Senate Republicans on Wednesday began the process of changing Senate rules to speed up consideration of some of President Donald Trump’s nominees, including those up for seats on federal district courts.
Read moreDemocrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican attempt to change Senate rules to speed up consideration of some of President Donald Trump’s nominees, but Republican leadership is expected to use procedural tools to push the measure through later this week.
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took steps Thursday to speed up confirmation of some of President Donald Trump’s nominees, including people nominated to federal district courts.
Read moreThe Senate on Tuesday confirmed an Arizona magistrate judge and former federal prosecutor to a seat on the Ninth Circuit, the fourth Trump nominee to be approved for the San Francisco-based appeals court.
Read morePresident Trump has tapped a former Delta Air Lines executive to lead the Federal Aviation Administration as the FAA deals with questions about its approval of a Boeing airliner involved in two deadly crashes within five months.
Read moreThe Senate confirmed Ohio’s state solicitor to a seat on the Sixth Circuit on Thursday, the body’s second such installment in as many days.
Read moreA policy adviser for Arizona’s Republican governor will likely soon take the reins as inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security and while he sailed through his nomination hearing Tuesday without problems, he will face no shortage of them if confirmed.
Read moreOvercoming last-minute concerns from Republicans about her views on abortion, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Neomi Rao to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit.
Read moreThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nominations of 44 of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, resuming the efforts of the Republican-controlled Senate to stock the federal judiciary with Trump selections.
Read moreWilliam Barr got a step closer to confirmation as U.S. attorney general on Thursday morning with a 12-10 endorsement from the Senate Judiciary Committee along party lines.
Read moreSenators on Tuesday grilled President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit over controversial articles she wrote about date rape, feminism and other hot-button cultural issues as an undergraduate student, as well as on her views on the role of administrative agencies and the regulations they issue.
Read moreThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-10 along party lines Tuesday to approve former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read morePresident Donald Trump put forward seven names late Wednesday to fill Ninth Circuit vacancies and several other California federal judgeships, drawing backlash from the state’s two Democratic senators.
Read morePresident Donald Trump announced a pair of key appointments Friday, tapping William Barr as attorney general, a position he once held under President George H.W. Bush, and naming former Fox News host Heather Nauert as ambassador to the United Nations.
Read moreSenator Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Thursday announced his opposition to a controversial nominee to a federal court in North Carolina, effectively sinking the nomination over the lawyer’s involvement with a political campaign that sent out mailers described as an attempt to intimidate African American voters.
Read moreThe Senate on Thursday pushed back a vote on a nominee to a North Carolina federal court who worked to defend a state voting law that a federal appeals court found targeted African Americans with “almost surgical precision.”
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