Read more confirmation vote stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/42969/confirmation-vote.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 06:12:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/77090/no-tsa-chief-in-detroit-crisis-thanks-to-gop-senator.htmlRob Quinn<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=318744&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331210119' border='0' />Democratic leaders and airline industry officials are blaming GOP Sen. Jim DeMint for the fact that the Transportation Security Administration has no chief as it struggles to recover from the terrorist near-miss on Christmas Day. DeMint, chair of an aviation subcommittee, has been blocking the appointment of counterterrorism expert Erroll...Sen. Jim DeMint (R-.S.C.) is the ranking member on the aviation subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.http://www.newser.com/story/77090/no-tsa-chief-in-detroit-crisis-thanks-to-gop-senator.htmlTue, 29 Dec 2009 07:29:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69176/sorry-glenn-beck-senate-confirms-sunstein.htmlMatt Cantor<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=292311&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331214417' border='0' />Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for a bureaucratic White House post, has been confirmed in a 57-40 Senate vote largely along party lines, Politico reports. Sunstein, who will monitor federal regulations as director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has been under attack by conservatives over...Cass Sunstein is shown in this Wikimedia Commons file photo.http://www.newser.com/story/69176/sorry-glenn-beck-senate-confirms-sunstein.htmlFri, 11 Sep 2009 09:50:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66298/obama-hails-historic-sotomayor-confirmation.html<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=231963&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331220006' border='0' />Barack Obama is lauding the barrier-breaking confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. “With this historic vote, the Senate has affirmed that Justice Sotomayor has the intellect, the temperament, the history, the integrity and the independence of mind to ably serve on our nation's...President Barack Obama speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, about the Senate's confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor. http://www.newser.com/story/66298/obama-hails-historic-sotomayor-confirmation.htmlThu, 06 Aug 2009 16:28:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66291/senate-confirms-sotomayor.html<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=231948&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331220008' border='0' />The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor today as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve. Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But...Sonia Sotomayor.http://www.newser.com/story/66291/senate-confirms-sotomayor.htmlThu, 06 Aug 2009 14:36:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66212/voinovich-makes-9-gop-yeas-for-sotomayor.htmlM. Morris<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=231930&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331220035' border='0' />As she coasts toward confirmation, Sonia Sotomayor picked up the support of a 9th Republican today, reports MSNBC. Ohio Sen. George Voinovich’s promised yea joins yesterday's announcement by Kit Bond of Missouri and on-again-off-again Obama cabinet nominee Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. Voinovich is among four of six retiring GOP...Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio.http://www.newser.com/story/66212/voinovich-makes-9-gop-yeas-for-sotomayor.htmlThu, 06 Aug 2009 13:08:18 CDT