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Posted: 6/13/2013 4:33:20 PM EST
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the chair of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, speaks to the media regarding confirmation hearings of CIA Director nominee John Brennan in Washington March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
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Posted: 6/8/2013 8:58:31 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013, file photo Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., questions President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., during his Capitol Hill confirmation hearing. Ayotte has taken a sustained political beating on New Hampshire television sets for voting with her Republican Party and against universal background checks on gun purchases. And Republicans close to the first-term senator concede that her popularity has subsequently suffered. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 6/6/2013 2:07:30 PM EST
FILE - In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Michael Froman, President Barack Obama's choice to become US Trade Representative, listens as the president speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Forman appears headed for Senate confirmation despite Republican questions about nominee Michael Froman’s investments in a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 6/3/2013 2:53:55 PM EST
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing in his pre-trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague February 19, 2013. REUTERS/ Michael Kooren
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Posted: 6/3/2013 1:12:12 PM EST
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing in his pre-trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague February 19, 2013. REUTERS/ Michael Kooren
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Posted: 5/23/2013 1:23:42 PM EST
Chicago billionaire business executive Penny Pritzker, President Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2013, before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on her nomination. A longtime Obama friend who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for both of his presidential campaigns, Pritzker is facing scrutiny at a Senate confirmation hearing for her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/23/2013 1:23:42 PM EST
Chicago billionaire business executive Penny Pritzker, President Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2013, before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on her nomination. A longtime Obama friend who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for both of his presidential campaigns, Pritzker is facing scrutiny at a Senate confirmation hearing for her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/23/2013 12:24:28 PM EST
Penny Pritzker testifies before a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be Commerce secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Posted: 5/23/2013 12:24:28 PM EST
Penny Pritzker testifies before a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to be Commerce secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Posted: 5/21/2013 7:15:49 PM EST
Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (R) and ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (L) preside over the second day of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Commitee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Posted: 5/1/2013 4:18:27 AM EST
FILE - Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., questions former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice to lead the Pentagon, during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo. A woman whose mother was killed in last year's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte Tuesday April 30, 2013 during the senator's first public appearance in New Hampshire since voting against gun control legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 3:43:25 PM EST
Pope Francis confers the sacrament of confirmation to Edmond Roche from Ireland during a mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 9:23:20 AM EST
Italian Premier Enrico Letta, standing at center top, delivers his speech flanked by his Cabinet ministers, ahead of a second confidence vote to confirm the government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 9:23:20 AM EST
Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, left, kisses the hand of Agriculture Minister Nunzia De Girolamo ahead of a second vote of confidence to confirm the new government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 9:23:20 AM EST
Italian Senate spokesperson Pietro Grasso reads the results of a second confidence vote to confirm the government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Italian Premier Enrico Letta's cross-party government wins second confidence vote in Parliament. The new government was confirmed Tuesday by the Senate by a vote 233 in favor, 59 against and 18 abstentions, a day after it won confirmation by the lower house. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 9:23:20 AM EST
Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, left, shares a word with former Premier Mario Monti, during a session for a second vote of confidence to confirm the new government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 9:23:20 AM EST
Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Angelino Alfano reads his speech regarding Sunday's shooting following a second confidence vote which confirmed the government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Italian Premier Enrico Letta's cross-party government wins second confidence vote in Parliament. The new government was confirmed Tuesday by the Senate by a vote 233 in favor, 59 against and 18 abstentions, a day after it won confirmation by the lower house. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Posted: 4/30/2013 8:33:26 AM EST
Italian Premier Enrico Letta delivers his speech ahead of a second confidence vote to confirm the government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 1:18:23 PM EST
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his nomination. Senate Democrats are delaying a confirmation vote on Perez after Republicans threatened to use a separate hearing to criticize his handling of a whistleblower case. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 3:14:12 AM EST
FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez speaks in Phoenix. Perez is expected to face tough questions at his confirmation hearing about his tenure as head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. The hearing on Thursday, April 18, will be the first time Perez publicly addresses GOP critics who say he made some questionable decisions as the nation’s top civil rights enforcer. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
