Recently Zach Klein mentioned ImportHTML for Google Docs:
https://twitter.com/zachklein/status/701539771277905922
So I tried it out on the Supreme Court Nominations page ( on senate.gov ):
[sourcecode]
=ImportHTML( "http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm", "table", 3 )
[/sourcecode]
I was impressed with the result.