By David Morgan WASHINGTON – An effort by U.S. Senate Democrats to move forward on President Joe Biden’s nominees for the Federal Reserve and Federal Trade Commission appeared headed for…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday moved to further diversify the federal bench in terms of demographics and job experience with five new judicial nominees, including…
WASHINGTON – The White House on Monday called on the U.S. Senate to vote this week on its nominees to lead the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, saying doing so…
By David Morgan (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve moved a step closer to confirmation Thursday after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer entered procedural motions…
– U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown said Tuesday he will move to hold a vote on four of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve Board after…
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee’s Harvard Group Hosted A Speaker Criticized For Antisemitic Remarks Kendall Tietz on March 7, 2022 President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was…
WASHINGTON – Republican Senator Ted Cruz said on Wednesday he would lift his holds on President Joe Biden’s State Department nominees now that the Democrat has ended his waiver of…
Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy placed a hold on all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nominees after the Biden administration delayed approval of carbon capture projects in his home state. Cassidy,…
WASHINGTON – A Republican U.S. senator said on Wednesday he is blocking President Joe Biden’s nominees for environmental regulatory positions in a bid to win permission for his state to…
By Jonnelle Marte and Ann Saphir – Senate Republicans on Tuesday delayed a pivotal committee vote on President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve Board, including Jerome Powell as…
– Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee plan to boycott a meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to vote on President Joe Biden’s slate of nominees to the Federal Reserve, a…
By David Morgan -Senate Democrats and Banking Committee members Jon Tester and Mark Warner on Monday said they will both vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s slate of nominees to…
– The U.S. Senate banking committee will hold a vote on advancing the nominations of a slate of nominees to the Federal Reserve on Tuesday Feb. 15, it said on…
By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir – The Federal Reserve’s inflation fight should be its top priority, President Joe Biden’s nominees to the central bank’s Board of Governors told lawmakers…
Chris Brunet on February 2, 2022 Three of President Joe Biden’s picks to regulate the banking industry will be grilled in front of the Senate on Thursday amid partisan tensions…
By Ann Saphir and Jonnelle Marte – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve Board came out swinging against high inflation on Wednesday, saying rising prices pose a…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – After an earlier nominee for a top U.S. banking regulation post was torpedoed, White House officials are determined not to let it happen again and…
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider – In the summer of 2005, Philip Jefferson spent several weeks learning from fellow Swarthmore College professor Amy Vollmer how to genetically engineer bacteria…
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said Tuesday it will not move forward with votes on nominees for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)…
By Nora Buli OSLO – British nature broadcaster David Attenborough, the World Health Organization and Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya are among the nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize after…
NEW YORK – U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown on Friday said he met with President Joe Biden’s three latest nominees for the Federal Reserve board, calling them qualified and urging fellow…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is set to vote Feb. 2 on nominees to head the auto safety agency and to open seats on the Federal…
Chris Brunet on January 25, 2022 The ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee is challenging President Joe Biden’s slate of nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, according…
– The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a nomination hearing next week for President Joe Biden’s three picks for the Federal Reserve. Biden earlier this month nominated former Federal…
President Joe Biden’s nominees for key regulatory agencies are facing stiff Republican opposition and delays in their confirmation process, holding up the president’s tech agenda. The Biden administration has made…