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When will confirmation hearings start for Trump’s Cabinet selections? Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee to be Defense secretary, is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 5, 2024. (J.
President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles sent a message Sunday ordering nominees to refrain from any posting on social media as Senate confirmation hearings are scheduled to start ...
Hegseth's nomination hearings are set to start on Jan. 14. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump nominees get social media reminder before confirmation hearings
[29] [34] The committee did not hold hearings on another Supreme Court nominee until February 1916, when intense opposition arose against the nomination of Louis Brandeis to become an associate justice. There were 19 days of public hearings altogether; the Senate ultimately voted to confirm Brandeis in June 1916. [35] [36]
A nomination for Secretary of Education is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, then presented to the full Senate for a vote. Former SBA administrator Linda McMahon from Connecticut was announced as Trump's nominee for the position on November 19, 2024.
From 1975 until 2017, the threshold needed to invoke cloture for Supreme Court confirmation was three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn-in (60 senators, if there was no more than one seat left vacant). [2] On April 7, 2017, the votes of Democratic senators managed to deny enough support for cloture on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch.
But Democrats are still expected to intensely question a number of Trump picks at their confirmation hearings, and senators could use certain procedural measures to slow down the process.
Amy Coney Barrett arrives at the U.S. Capitol with Vice President Mike Pence to begin meeting with Mitch McConnell prior to the start of her confirmation, September 29, 2020 Following Trump's formal nomination of Barrett, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham announced that committee hearings on the nomination would begin October ...