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A crucial vote to cut off debate is expected later Thursday. If that passes, a vote on confirmation could follow.

Sen. Shelby said he will vote against the confirmation of Fed Chairman Bernanke for a second term, as a Senate panel convened his confirmation hearing.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday slowed down the anticipated confirmation of U.S. President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Confirmation hearings are due in the US Senate for President Obama's nominee to serve on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has bonded with female senators about her childhood love of Nancy Drew mysteries and shared war stories with the Senate's former prosecutors about her days in the gritty Manhattan district attorney's office.

The Alabama senator leading the Republican Party's vetting of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said the American tradition of impartial courts is "under attack" and the pivotal question in her nomination should be whether she allows personal views to color her decisions as a judge.

President Obama's choice for health secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, goes before a Senate panel for her confirmation ...