Posted on 05/02/2014 1:07:56 PM PDT by kcvl
The Senate confirmed four of President Obama’s executive and judicial nominees Thursday.
Theodore Chuang and George Hazel will serve as U.S. district judges for Maryland. The Senate voted 53-42 on Chuang’s nomination and 95-0 on Hazel’s.
Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he couldn’t support Chuang’s nomination because he helped the Obama administration “stonewall” Congress on the investigation of the death of four Americans at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. “I can’t support his nomination because of the central role Mr. Chuang played in the administration’s efforts to stonewall an investigation into the situation in Benghazi,” Grassley said. “These questions remain unanswered because the administration refuses to recognize the rights of congressional oversight.”
Chuang provided legal counsel to the State Department and Department of Homeland Security.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) defended Chuang, saying he was only doing his job and Grassley’s “beef” was really with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“I’m kind of tired of this Benghazi witch hunt stuff,” Mikulski said. “He did not have decision making authority as to whether to provide documents to the committee. That decision came from higher up.”
The Senate also confirmed Janice Schneider to be an assistant secretary of the Interior on a 64-32 vote.
Senators confirmed Suzan LeVine to be U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein by voice vote.
Those are expected to be the last votes of the week for the Senate. Two more nomination votes are scheduled for next Monday.
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It doesn't matter. She could be dead, and Maryland voters would still re-elect her.
Chuang: perfect for Maryland.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Well considering that the leftist kill a million unborn a year. That is why they have no real feeling stowards our men in uniforms.
Thank you, bust be time for collins to face up to reelection. Thank God they will both be gone June 12, 2018.
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
They’re just trying to play out the clock. By 2016 it will be old, old, old news. Why are you conservative nutjobs bringing up old, old, old news?
You have successfully offended at least eight different classes of persons in that one sentence...
I'm interested in learning how to do this...could you give me a few tips?
King's a screaming communist, Collins is a part-time Republican. (RINO 50 percenter)
Nice of Mikulski to confirm higher ups are complicit in the Benghazi cover up...
Now tell us how high up your little midget...
She probably would have been very comfortable in Hillary’s Watergate work group.
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