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Economy, Insurance
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Big-ticket items range from energy and campaign-finance reform to decisions over expiring Bush-era tax cuts, war funding, and 12 spending bills for fiscal year 2011, which begins Oct. 1. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court, with a full Senate vote expected later in [...]
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U.S.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Elena Kagan begins her second day before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for her nomination to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.To the extent that there will be any drama in the confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, it will come Tuesday as members of the Senate [...]
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U.S.
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
US President Barack Obama’s pick to fill a second US Supreme Court vacancy, Elena Kagan, faces her first confirmation hearing on Monday amid political tensions rubbed raw by looming elections. “It is a highly charged partisan environment. We are a few months from an election. There is going to be enormous pressure, political pressure, to [...]