Sentence examples for block the confirmation from inspiring English sources

The Christian Commitment pulls out all the stops to block the confirmation.

They say they will block the confirmation of John Bolton's appointment as ambassador to the UN.

He lost some, too, including, most painfully, his attempt to block the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991.

Given the Republicans' 51 49 majority in the Senate, Democrats will need every Party member's vote, plus at least those of two Republicans, to block the confirmation.

Since George W. Bush first became president, Democratic senators have used the filibuster 10 times to block the confirmation of nominees for federal court judgeships.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee he worked to block the confirmation process, without a hearing, of any judicial nominee he suspected of the faintest liberal taint.

Over the last year, Democrats have opposed and mounted filibusters to block the confirmations of a handful of Bush appeals court nominees who, the Democrats assert, have such strongly held conservative views that they would shift the courts sharply rightward.

Republicans have either delayed or blocked the confirmation of several of his nominees to the federal bench.

He has crippled America's diplomatic corps, systematically starving the State Department of funds and capriciously blocking the confirmation of highly qualified ambassadorial nominees.

He became a Republican after Democrats in the Senate blocked the confirmation of Judge Robert Bork, a conservative, to the Supreme Court in 1987.

On February 4th, CongressDaily reported that Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, was secretly blocking the confirmation of seventy Obama appointees over a dispute involving defense earmarks for his state.