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Presidents nominate, the Senate holds. This often occurs for reasons having nothing to do with the nominee, but to force the White House to deal with one parochial issue or another — a single senator has the right to place a hold on a nominee, and will do so if he wants to hurry along […]

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is praising two New York facilities for canceling events where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to appear this week. “Under the UN headquarters agreement, the United States is obligated to let President Ahmadinejad come to the U.S., but there is no reason that he should […]