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U.S. Senate Confirms Executive, Judicial Nominations

The U.S. Senate moved forward to confirm the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and confirmed Patricia Millett to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. And following a Republican "talk-a-thon" last night, the Senate also moved forward on the confirmation of Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, also to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. Senate Confirms Executive, Judicial Nominations

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December 10, 1948

Eleanor Roosevelt proclaims international Human Rights Day speaking mostly to the rest of the world, emerging from war, and facing human rights issues on every continent. At that moment, the US leads the world?s democracies by almost every measure. Now 65 years later, the blocks to our democracy are as glaring in the US as anywhere else.

December 10, 1948