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Not unless you want to. no. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today with td ameritrade®. justice kennedy's retirement makes the issue of senate control one of the vital issues of our time. >> you can say that again. republican are moving to carry out a swift confirmation of whomever the president puts up to replace anthony kennedy, edespite their very slim
Timing of secretary sebelius stepping down and the timing of sylvia's confirmation process in terms of concerns that the affordable care act will be kind of the punching bag for the republicans rather than the agenda that democrats wanted to be talking about in the fall. are you concerned about that timing. >> i think the timing worked well for kathleen. she goes out on a high note with the huge accomplishment of the enrollment period. sylvia comes in with really wind at her back and the fact that she was confirmed the first time. obviously she's well respected on both sides of the aisle. we h...
Deception. seems apropo after the obama administration announced plans to nominate montana senator max baucus to be the next ambassador to china. president obama even delivered a personal ringing endorsement at his news conference today. >> max baucus is going to be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation. >> it would reward one of the authors of the affordable care act and would likely give the administration an easy path through a likely tricky nomination process. senators love to confirm senators, after all. but is there even more to this than meets the eye...
Ari shapiro. last day at the white house, he deserves a question. >> thank you very much. senator max baucus was widely seen as the best hope for a large-scale deal to overhaul the tax code. what does your decision to nominate him as ambassador to china say about your hopes for a major tax code in the second term? >> it says max baucus is going to be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation, and my expectation and hope is that if both the senate democrats or if democrats and republicans in the house and the senate are serious about tax reform, then it's not goi...
Despite the fact that four of the d.c. court's 11 seats are currently vacant. aware that the the fact that the country needs three functioning sections of government his nominee, the administration's number two league mind, u.s. deputy solicitor general sr sri srinirasan, who served in a similar role under george w. bush and clerked for reagan-appointed supreme court justice, sandra day o'connor. this week he received the support of 12 legal powerhouses among them six very high-profile republicans. including ted olson, ken starr and paul clement. in letter, the legal minds urged a swift confir...