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Senate reaches deal on Obama nominees
Source: Politico
Senate reaches deal on Obama nominees
By SEUNG MIN KIM | 12/19/13 3:27 PM EST Updated: 12/20/13 9:20 AM EST
The Senate reached an agreement late Thursday on several key Obama administration and judicial nominees, ending an ongoing dispute over nominations that had tied up much of the chamber this month.
The confirmation vote for the most high-profile nomination — Janet Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve — will be held in January, according to the agreement. And the Senate will vote on the confirmations of Alejandro Mayorkas as deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, John Koskinen as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Brian Davis as a U.S. district judge in Florida all on Friday morning.
Earlier Thursday, senators had been preparing for a rare weekend session as Republicans and Democrats were at loggerheads over when to hold votes on the handful of nominations that were remaining on the Senate’s docket. Senate Democrats were informed during their closed-door party meeting Thursday that they would be staying in Washington through Saturday, and Senate Republicans had sketched out a plan that would ensure one of its members would stick around on the floor at all times to keep their eyes on Democrats.
In addition to those four, six other executive branch nominees were pending — mostly deputy posts for agencies such as the Treasury Department and the State Department. That batch of nominees will now be sent back to the White House since they weren’t cleared by the Senate by the end of the year.
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By SEUNG MIN KIM | 12/19/13 3:27 PM EST Updated: 12/20/13 9:20 AM EST
The Senate reached an agreement late Thursday on several key Obama administration and judicial nominees, ending an ongoing dispute over nominations that had tied up much of the chamber this month.
The confirmation vote for the most high-profile nomination — Janet Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve — will be held in January, according to the agreement. And the Senate will vote on the confirmations of Alejandro Mayorkas as deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, John Koskinen as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Brian Davis as a U.S. district judge in Florida all on Friday morning.
Earlier Thursday, senators had been preparing for a rare weekend session as Republicans and Democrats were at loggerheads over when to hold votes on the handful of nominations that were remaining on the Senate’s docket. Senate Democrats were informed during their closed-door party meeting Thursday that they would be staying in Washington through Saturday, and Senate Republicans had sketched out a plan that would ensure one of its members would stick around on the floor at all times to keep their eyes on Democrats.
In addition to those four, six other executive branch nominees were pending — mostly deputy posts for agencies such as the Treasury Department and the State Department. That batch of nominees will now be sent back to the White House since they weren’t cleared by the Senate by the end of the year.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/senate-janet-yellen-confirmation-101344.html
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