The European Parliament always likes to assert itself by refusing to confirm one or two nominated commissioners in its confirmation hearings and the designate new farm commissioner Dacian Ciolos could be in their sights as the youngest and least experienced of the nominations. Although nominally an independent, he has been embraced by the ...

... blogger Mike Stark when asked if Bernanke's confirmation is a sure thing. Dodd refused to speculate whether or not the Senate would ... }The Banking panel is expected to hold hearings on Bernanke's confirmation the first week of December. President Barack ... a vote on the nomination by year's end. Hearings on his nomination are slated to begin soon. While it is expected that Bernanke will ...

... Tuesday, The US Senate Finance committee held hearings on the confirmation of Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve ... of smack. But not this time. I have spent the day watching these hearings on C-SPAN riveted. First, I learned that Ron Paul ... opposing it on the senate floor and promising to vote against his confirmation. He discusses why in the video below: During the actual hearing, which consisted ...

... 20th, though no information about the discussions or the results were available. Then, the hearings were tentatively scheduled for November, after the confirmation hearing for Marine General Clifford Stanley, which ... Fort Hood tragedy and make recommendations; much of the evidence examined in the Committee hearings will be dependent upon the information submitted by the FBI's Joint Terrorism ...

... with his sponsorship of the Federal Reserve audit legislation and now his attempt to stop the Bernanke confirmation. Bernanke's actions over the past nine months have pointed to someone committed to a ... Your voice and vote are the only difference makers. If you have a chance to watch, the Bernanke confirmation hearings today are likely to be televised on C-SPAN or one of the financial channels.

Today, Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on 3 December to consider President Obama’s nomination of Ben Bernanke to continue as chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve. Read Dodd’s 24 August statement on Bernanke’s appointment here. Hearings are webcast live here.

... of monetary policy. Congress and the White House already have ample opportunity, both in regular hearings and in private meetings, to influence the Federal Reserve as to monetary policy. It would not ... , there is no urgency in his nomination. Congress has ample time to consider an audit of the Fed before weighing the merits of his confirmation. More on Financial Crisis

... that Chief Justice Roberts, whatever his personal campaign finance opinions, would hold to the view as expressed at his confirmation hearings -- that precedent should rarely be overruled unless there were serious questions about whether the prior decision was arbitrary, unworkable or "eroded by subsequent developments." Instead of being ...

... five-year term seems like a bad one. But all is not lost! Bernanke hasn't had confirmation hearings yet -- they will likely begin next week -- and he certainly hasn't passed a confirmation vote yet.There's a lot of pent-up anger at the Fed for a variety of reasons and the confirmation hearings could get lively. Ben will be asked (again) about what happened in 2008 (BofA, AIG, ...

... -0. Despite that, it took 123 days for her nomination to move through the confirmation process, according to a tally compiled by the Jaded JD. ... judgeship by Pres. Reagan, but he was rejected after witnesses at his confirmation hearings disclosed statements he had made that seemed racist, ... unanimously." After Hamilton's confirmation, Rebecca Lehrman and the Blog for our Future protested ...

... called a "high tech lynching" during his confirmation hearings was in fact a lie, even if he never put pubes on Anita Hill's Coke, he's still a shitty, shitty judge. I ... how he ended up not being a reliable conservative vote, or how with Scalia, it never really came up during his confirmation hearings that he likes to strangle puppies to the accompaniment of the ...

... lest it become an issue in Obama administration drug officials' confirmation hearings," Mercury News added. A Field Research Corporation poll ... lest it become an issue in Obama administration drug officials' confirmation hearings. "All other airports in medical cannabis states should have similar policies but they don't," he said, adding that he hears San Francisco ...

... holding out some kind of vague hope that Ben Bernanke’s confirmation hearings might provide a way out of our political impasse on the jobs front. After all, Bernanke& ... with the largest influence over employment levels. And right now employment levels are very low indeed. So at his hearings either Bernanke might publicly discuss his determination to do more to lower the unemployment rate, or ...

... Washington Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Judging from recent confirmation hearings, there is now a consensus that Supreme Court Justices should be humble servants ... Justices stick a little closer to the promises they are expected to make, and do make, at their confirmation hearings. First, Congress should require that all Supreme Court opinions, including concurrences ...

... HEALTH CARE BILL THIS WEEK 2. SENATE TO BEGIN HEARINGS ON BEN BERNANKE NOMINATION THIS WEEK 3. H.R ... BEN BERNANKE NOMINATION THIS WEEK United States congressional confirmation hearings over the appointment of Ben Bernanke for another four-year term as ... 39; must exercise its constitutional prerogatives and hold meaningful hearings before reaching a decision. President Barack Obama nominated ...