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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addresses the Senate about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. McConnell announces that the Senate will vote on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee in the fall, discusses Kennedy's career and explains how the pending nomination is different than the fraught situation surrounding the 2016 Obama nomination and is more akin to situations faced by other presidents making mid-term nominations to the court.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton appoints Evelyn S. Lieberman to be Director of the Voice of America in this excerpt from a VOA broadcast.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- United States President Barack Obama discusses the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama talks about Scalia's career and personal life and declares his intent to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bush announces his selection of Ben Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bush lists Bernanke's qualifications and experience in monetary policy and also praises Greenspan for his service through several presidential administrations. Bernanke also talks about Greenspan's service and pledges to continue to manage the Federal Reserve in a like manner.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-10-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Carter talks about the selection of federal judges and defends the replacement of U.S. attorney David Marston in Philadelphia; he says he would like to have an agreement with Russia against nuclear weapons in space; discusses Israeli settlements in Egypt, 100 percent parity for farmers, a tax cut and reducing the federal deficit and putting unemployed back to work.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Opening day of confirmation hearings for Judge Thomas. This begins with his formal statement and questions by the Senate Judiciary Chairman Joseph Biden (D-Del). Thomas speaks of his career up to this point and Biden asks questions about his inerpretation of Natural Law.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-09-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert Banks, former Michigan State University associate vice president for Academic Human Resources, and John Revitte, former professor in the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and former Faculty Grievance Official (FGO), discuss Bank's role in searching for a new Dean of the College of Social Science and the complicated nature of conducting such a search. Banks and Revitte also discuss their research on the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP) and the information and data they have gathered.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Floyd Loew, waiter and strike organizer, describes an altercation between the Waiters and Waitresses Union and members of the German American Bund when they tried to hire waitresses without going through the union. Loew also talks about how the union organized the hotels and convention halls in Detroit, strikes, sit-downs, and other labor actions, and integrating the union and organizing Black waiters and cooks as a way to prevent them from being used as scabs.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in these excerpts from the second day of hearings. In response to questions from U.S. Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)and Al Franken (D-MN), Gorsuch discusses "water boarding" as torture, the concept of "originalism" and its relationship with technology and scientific advances, the rights of corporations, the "plain meaning rule", and his past opinions on judicial interpretation of administrative rules. Senator Chuck Grassley chairs the committee.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama announces the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama says Garland is experienced and respected by his peers and recounts Garland's education and qualifications. Obama criticizes the Senate Republican leadership who have stated they will hold no confirmation hearings on any nominee until after the Presidential election in November. Garland says the nomination is the greatest honor of his life and looks forward to the confirmation process. Held in the White House Rose Garden.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection