Obama won his first term as president in 2008 and would be re-elected in 2012 before finishing his second term in 2017.
With Lutnick’s confirmation in the books, Trump has now surpassed the confirmation pace of former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The Democrat-led Senate under Obama in 2009 had ...
including trying to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. Blagojevich had served nearly eight years in prison before Trump, in his first term as president, commuted his sentence.
Five months into office in 2009, President Barack Obama relieved Army Gen ... But members and staff of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees had seen no such list.
Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital.