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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Confirmations, Removals, and Vetoes

More detail on nomination, confirmation, and appointment

The nuclear option (Fisher, pp. 35-36):

Senatorial courtesy (Fisher, pp. 33-34) and blue slips

Confirmation Hearings

Confirmation hearings:
  • John Kerry has questions for a nominee for Ambassador to Belgium, and donor to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Why do you think Bush pulled the nomination?

Kerry Confronts Swift Boat Funder
by NEW_FRONTIER

  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse uses Mukasey's confirmation hearing to make a point about waterboarding:


Removals:
We had not only failed to take into account the ability of the Senate to delay us and obstruct us, but we had much too cavalierly underrated the power of the President, even a President who had lost his legislative majority and was in a certain amount of trouble for other reasons. I am speaking of the power of the veto. Even if you pass something through both the House and the Senate, there is that presidential pen. How could we have forgotten that? For me especially it was inexcusable, because when I was Republican whip during the Bush Administration one of my duties had been precisely to help sustain presidential vetoes.
Item Veto





Congressional (Legislative Veto)


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