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Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Tuesday he plans to expedite U.N. ambassador nominee Elise Stefanik’s confirmation to the Senate floor.

Treasury nominee Scott Bessent opened his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee with powerful attacks on the radical left by defending the value of tariffs and nuclear energy. 

The law has been a flashpoint in the abortion debate during the Biden administration, with the DOJ using the law to almost explicitly go after pro-life advocates.

Padilla attempted to pick apart Energy Secretary nominee Chris Wright over climate change during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday morning.

Democrat senators exposed the “mismanagement of the Pentagon” during Pete Hegseth’s hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. 

Pundits on social media gave Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi fabulous reviews during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday.

The confirmation hearing for Trump’s Energy Secretary pick Chris Wright was interrupted at least five times within the first hour by raging, left-wing climate activists.

The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), has been delayed to January 21. 

President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed his complete support for Pete Hegseth, his nominee for secretary of Defense, ahead of Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

An anti-woke super PAC is launching a seven-figure ad blitz in five states to support President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Defense Pete Hegseth, Breitbart News has learned.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member and soon-to-be chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke glowingly of President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, after their meeting Wednesday.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, unofficially begins his confirmation process with a firm footing.

A rift is emerging among the incoming Senate Republican majority due to President-elect Donald Trump’s push for recess cabinet appointments.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted “pedophiles must be rejoicing at the prospect” of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, nodding to one of the most contentious topics in Jacksons hearing: her past alleged leniency in child porn offender cases.

Durbin delivered a lengthy defense of Jackson in reference to GOP senators’ questions about her work representing a member of the Taliban.

Cruz said, “Civil commitment laws across the country would be struck down, releasing sexual predators” if her previous views were enacted.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on Monday at the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson that the court is an intricate part of upholding the rule of law in the United States.

Far-left media invoked the “QAnon” conspiracy theory after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) exposed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes.”

Democrats in the media exploded at Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for exposing President Joe Biden’s judicial nominee’s criminal history. 

Eleven Republican senators have demanded Tuesday a second confirmation hearing for nominee Vanita Gupta due to “her misleading statements, and for her refusal to respond to our written questions.”

President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated Tuesday that he would likely support new rules to force corporations to disclose their political spending activities, disclosure workforce diversity, and tighten disclosures around climate change, policies that would make businesses more susceptible to political pressure from the left.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), President Joe Biden’s nominee, to serve as secretary of energy.

Rep. Deb Haaland, nominated to run the Interior Department, defended joining protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

Mike Pence’s chief of staff and the president of Catholic Vote warned against potential Democrat anti-Catholic bias during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling on the Senate to postpone the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, calling it both “irresponsible and dangerous to move forward with a hearing” following the news of two members of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), testing positive for the novel coronavirus.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is receiving dismal reviews from the usually-friendly liberal California media for her performance Thursday at the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) made a major admission during the effort he and fellow Democrats made to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Tuesday, noting that rather than Kavanaugh’s record, President Donald Trump is his main concern.

Barach Obama’s former DOJ attorney, Vanita Gupta, said at an anti-Kavanaugh protest on Tuesday that the Supreme Court nominee is a threat to civil and human rights.

Democrats are swooning over the accusation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh snubbed Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland, Florida mass shooting, when Guttenberg tried to shake his hand at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, that state’s GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, slammed incumbent Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Tuesday for not condemning a plot orchestrated by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to derail the opening days of Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

None of the ten Democrat senators up for re-election in 2018 in states won by Donald Trump in 2016 have commented publicly yet on the obstructionist antics of their Democrat colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Abandoning decorum, Senate Democrats interrupted the proceedings 62 times, without waiting for proper recognition from the chair, and many of them spoke out of turn.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court nomination hearing on Tuesday that if the country were to return to “an era of civility,” we would return to the “foundational, structural principles within our Constitution.”

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended the protests that interrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the “noise of democracy” — minutes after admitting that he and fellow Democrats had coordinated disruptions to the hearing.

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) said Senate Democrats would be “held in contempt” if Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing were a courtroom.

Senate Democrats disrupted Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) opening statement during Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday.