Sentences with phrase «to win confirmation»

The White House is confident that Hagel can weather the storm and win confirmation in the Democratic - led Senate - presidential picks for senior security posts are rarely denied.

After 328 days in office, Trump won confirmation for 12 of his appeals court nominees — the most in a president's first year since creation of the circuit court system in 1891, the report says.

A provision in the government funding bill would make it easier for Trump to win confirmation of General James Mattis to be defense secretary early next year.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo won confirmation as secretary of State on Thursday.

Goodfriend's nomination squeaked out of a Senate committee on a 13 - 12 vote, with all Democrats opposed, indicating he could face difficulty winning confirmation by the full Senate.

Only last month did de Blasio put forward a different pick, the far less controversial technocrat Carl Weisbrod, who duly won confirmation last week.

As the Times Union reported in 2013, the prior executive director, Letizia Tagliafierro won confirmation by a vote of 9 - 5, with dissenters wanting a person outside state government.

He points out that five years ago McDonald won confirmation to the State Supreme Court by an overwhelming 33 to 3 vote in the Senate.

If approved, Benjamin will fill a position that has been vacant since 2007 when former President George W. Bush's nominee for the job, James Holsinger, failed to win confirmation from Congress because of his controversial views on homesexuality.

She was one of President Trump's most controversial Cabinet picks and barely won confirmation.

If U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch wins confirmation, he could be the most conservative justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to an analysis by two political science professors.

Merrick Garland was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1997, winning confirmation in a 76 - 23 Senate vote, and served in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration prior to that.

[29] On July 16, the Senate Democratic majority came within hours of using the nuclear option to win confirmation of seven of President Obama's long - delayed executive branch appointments.

Mike Pompeo won a favorable vote Monday from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after Sen. Rand Paul flipped to endorse him, paving an unexpectedly easy path for the CIA director to win confirmation as secretary of state as soon as this week.

«I'm satisfied there's sufficient creditor support to win confirmation,» Judge Brendan Shannon said in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Ben Lawsky, a veteran of the Andrew Cuomo's attorney general office and gubernatorial office, won confirmation to lead — and by default shape — the new Department of Financial Services.

Trump, one day after introducing his nominee for the Supreme Court, urged Republicans in the Senate to make a major change to the chamber's voting rules if Judge Neil Gorsuch can't attract the necessary Democratic support to win confirmation.

What's not certain is if McDonald would win confirmation in the Senate.

Most, if not all, of the nominees are expected to win confirmation, which requires just 51 votes.

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is the only Republican to publicly endorse Watt, who needs 60 votes to overcome procedural hurdles and win confirmation.