Four years ago, the conventions were filled with the promise of high drama not seen at a big party gathering in a generation — a possible fight over Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegates, a speech by the country's first major-party black presidential nominee in front of 85,000 people and the introduction of a vice-presidential nominee who electrified her party.
"I wrote that when I was in the position of sitting where the staff is now sitting and feeling a little bit frustrated that I really wasn't understanding completely what the judicial nominee in front of me meant and what she thought," Ms. Kagan said of Justice Ginsburg.
Senate Democrats used the confirmation hearing today on Gov. Michael O. Leavitt of Utah, President Bush's choice for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, as a forum to sharply criticize the administration's environmental record, all but ignoring the nominee sitting in front of them.
"Let me point out by the way: can anyone imagine our nominee standing in front of voters and taking questions like this?" Afterward, Cruz left quickly and the room erupted into chaos as those who agreed with Cruz's stance argued fiercely with those who disagreed.
On Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford will appear ahead of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where both will testify about allegations she made about a sexual assault she said occurred when the two were in high school.
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in," the GOP nominee liked to say in front of thousands of adoring fans.
But it was Mrs. Cheney who gamely worked the crowd of fourth graders as she and her husband, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, toured a computer laboratory in front of the cameras.
On the third day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he referred to contraception as "abortion-inducing drugs".
Wednesday morning at 9 15 a.m., the public will get their best chance to learn about Donald Trump's Secretary of State nominee, Rex Tillerson, when he testifies in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"One of the four" -- in other words, Mitt made a long speech full of many detailed reasons why Donald Trump is absolutely unacceptable as a presidential candidate; but if Trump becomes the nominee, then Mitt will put party in front of country and go right ahead and support Trump anyway.
