Senate Hearing on the Obama Nomination

DOCUMENTED

United States Capitol, west front. Architect of the Capitol. U.S. government work.

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a nomination hearing on October 1, 2009. The subject was David S. Ferriero, nominated by President Barack Obama to be Archivist of the United States. Congress.gov hosts the printed hearing. The committee’s hearing page lists the same date and title.

That is how he entered the job. A public hearing. A public transcript. No invented inner life. No invented quote from the dais. Readers who want the questions and answers should open the transcript.

NARA later recorded the rest of the sequence: Senate confirmation on November 6, 2009; oath on November 13, 2009. Those dates are on the agency’s official history page. They are not a crime. They are the start of a twelve-year holdover that ran through a Trump presidency the Obama White House did not expect to lose.

Sources

U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Nomination of David S. Ferriero, October 1, 2009. congress.gov

HSGAC hearing page. hsgac.senate.gov

National Archives. David S. Ferriero, Tenth Archivist. archives.gov

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

They put a librarian from the New York Public Library in charge of the nation’s records. Fine. Then they left him there for the entire Trump presidency. That is not a footnote. That is the man who later wrote Congress about boxes and the Department of Justice.