Latest "Confirmation" stories

Affected by Tuberville’s confirmation holds? We want to hear from you

Hundreds of military members and their families have been affected by Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blockage of normally routine military confirmations.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

6 weeks ago

Joint chiefs vacancies loom amid Tuberville’s Senate standoff

Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blanket hold on military confirmations could create as many as five joint chiefs vacancies. Here's what happens next.

By Bryant Harris, Stephen Losey and Megan Eckstein

4 months ago

IRS nominee to face questions over how agency will spend $80 billion

Werfel, nominated by President Joe Biden to steer the IRS as it receives the massive funding boost, gets his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

By Fatima Hussein

8 months ago

Senate votes to confirm Haspel as 1st female CIA director

Supporters cited Haspel’s 33-year career at the agency. Her opponents said it wasn’t right to promote someone who supervised a black site in Thailand.

5 years ago

GOP pushes for speedy confirmation vote for CIA nominee

Gina Haspel’s nomination has reopened debate about the CIA’s now-defunct program of detaining terror suspects overseas at secret lock-ups and trying to get them to talk by subjecting them to sleep deprivation and other harsh interrogation techniques.

5 years ago

CIA nominee toughens interrogation stance, picks up support

CIA nominee Gina Haspel wrote that she had learned “hard lessons since 9/11,” in comments aimed at clarifying her position on now-banned torture techniques.

5 years ago