WASHINGTON - Democrats struggled to end Republican delaying tactics aimed at derailing Obama's pick of B. Todd Jones to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nominating Sarah Bloom Raskin, a member of the Federal Reserve board, to the second-highest position at the Treasury Department.
WASHINGTON - The White House presented the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions with vetting documents for former AFL-CIO lawyer Nancy Schiffer, and NLRB Democratic lawyer Kent Hirozawa, and incumbent Mark Gaston Pearce on the eve of their confirmation hearing, according to Senate sources.