So far I do not see confirmation anywhere: was Carolyn Colvin confirmed as a Commissioner of Social Security?
Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 4 Comments
Carolyn Colvin
| Carolyn Colvin | |
|---|---|
| Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Acting |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 19, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Michael Astrue |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 27, 1942 Arnold, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Morgan State University |
Carolyn W. Colvin has been the Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration in the United States since February 14, 2013, having succeeded Michael J. Astrue. On June 20, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated her to serve as the commissioner.[1] On September 18, 2014, the United States Senate Committee on Finance approved her nomination by a 22-2 vote.[2]
Previously, she was the Deputy Commissioner, having been nominated by Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate in 2010. She had previously worked at the Social Security Administration during the 1990s.[3][4]
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December 16th, 2014 @ 5:55 am
No. see https://news.yahoo.com/senate-cancels-vote-obama-social-180353178.html
December 16th, 2014 @ 6:10 am
so , why did they approve this anti-second amendment communist for the Surgeon General, but did not approve Sec of SSN? Is it because of her criminal complicity and treason in the cover up of Obama’s stolen SSN
December 16th, 2014 @ 11:12 am
Scandals
Appointments
Obama’s nominee to lead Social Security agency could be left dangling
Published December 16, 2014
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In this Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 photo the Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner Carolyn Colvin speaks during an interview in Washington. (AP)
Even as the Senate plows through votes on nearly two-dozen Obama nominees, at least one controversial pick could be left dangling amid objections from Republicans over an ongoing investigation into a troubled computer project.
Over the weekend, Senate Democrats canceled a procedural vote on Carolyn Colvin’s nomination to lead the Social Security Administration. The move could easily push off consideration of Colvin until next year — when Republicans control the Senate.
The delay comes after Republicans urged the Senate to wait until the investigation at her agency is resolved.
“It may very well turn out that Ms. Colvin did nothing wrong — but we need to know for sure,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said last week.
Colvin’s nomination first ran into trouble when Hatch and other GOP senators said they would try to block it while investigators look into a $300 million computer project at the agency.
The project, which doesn’t work, predates Colvin’s tenure — she has been acting commissioner since Feb. 2013. But an inspector general’s investigation is ongoing.
Whistleblower Michael Keegan also told FoxNews.com that he was present at a meeting of senior officials in May of this year where they decided to sit on a report detailing the problems with that project as long as Colvin’s nomination for commissioner was pending.
“They hid the report,” he told FoxNews.com.
It remains unclear whether Democrats might try one last time to clear Colvin’s nomination.
“I don’t know if it’s case closed yet,” Hatch spokesman Aaron Fobes told FoxNews.com on Tuesday.
But he said the nomination likely gets pushed to next year, presuming President Obama re-nominates her.
After the Senate canceled the vote on Colvin’s nomination, Keegan’s attorney Morris Fischer said in a statement that the move marked a “great victory for the individual citizen over government corruption.”
Amid the allegations and concerns by GOP lawmakers, a Social Security spokeswoman recently told the Associated Press that Colvin “is not personally the subject of any criminal investigation.”
Other controversial Obama nominees, meanwhile, are coming to a vote.
On Monday, the Senate narrowly approved Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as U.S. surgeon general, despite opposition from Republicans and some Democrats over his support for gun control and past statements that gun violence is a public health issue.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said most of Murthy’s career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. “Americans don’t want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution,” Barrasso said.
Supporters said Murthy is well-qualified and noted his promise not to use the position as a bully pulpit for gun control.
Democrats also are on track to win confirmation of up to 88 of Obama’s top judicial nominations this year, a total that would be the highest for any president in two decades.
FoxNews.com’s Judson Berger and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
December 16th, 2014 @ 5:55 pm
Harry Reid (NEV) put it on hold, and cancelled
the vote on Colvin for now (allegedly).
Computer scandal mentioned, no Obot scandal
mentioned.
GOP must re-vote on her name in the NEW YEAR
2015.
Happy New Year, All Patriots!
Happy New Year, Danno!!!