caa a22 4500 378915657 CHVBK 20180305123552.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041231xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1540-8884.1062 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1540-8884.1062 Wegner Leof Allison Bush Cabinet Nominations: How Will They Fare in the Senate? [Elektronische Daten] [Allison Wegner Leof] Shortly after the election, President George W. Bush initiated a major restructuring of his cabinet. The post-election weeks have been filled with the drama of the selection process: who was in, who was out, whom would the President choose to fill the empty slots? Come January, the drama will move to Capitol Hill, for the hearings, floor speeches and votes that make up the Senate confirmation process. A Senate tradition of deferring to Presidents on their selections – particularly for Cabinet appointments – has lost strength, and instead has been replaced by a practice of opposition party Senators using nominations to attack the President and his party and hone their opposition party message for mass consumption. This paper looks at President Bush’s new Cabinet appointments in light of these developments in the confirmation process, and offers some predictions for what will happen in January. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston presidency nationallicence cabinet nationallicence presidential appointments nationallicence senate nationallicence confirmation process nationallicence The Forum De Gruyter 2/4(2004-12-31) 2:4 2004 2 for https://doi.org/10.2202/1540-8884.1062 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1540-8884.1062 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wegner Leof Allison NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Forum De Gruyter 2/4(2004-12-31) 2:4 2004 2 for CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter