Sentences with phrase «voting on the confirmations»

Pompeo is awaiting a vote on his confirmation as Trump's pick to succeed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

«We disagree with Sen. Flanagan's support for DeVos, but there are only two New Yorkers who will vote on her confirmation and we applaud Sen. (Charles) Schumer and Sen. (Kirsten) Gillibrand for their public opposition to DeVos» appointment,» said New York State United Teachers spokesman Carl Korn.

There is also mention of the significant lack of federal judges in some districts due to some members of the Senate refusing to vote on the confirmation of new judges:

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His confirmation for the role awaits a vote of the full Senate after an unusual and ultimately unsuccessful boycott by Democratic Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Paul recounted his decision process on Twitter as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared to vote on the Pompeo confirmation.

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.

Even on items with unanimous approval, like the confirmation of Judge Barbara Milano Keenan, which took 6 + months to get to a 99 - 0 vote on cloture and her final confirmation.

Mr. SCHUMER: Madam President, of the last 26 nominations of Justices confirmed to the Supreme Court, going back to 1954, how many were confirmed without a rollcall vote or received more than 60 votes in support of their nomination either on cloture or on confirmation?

U.S. Senate Republicans deployed the so - called «nuclear option» and changed longstanding rules to clear the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, bypassing a precedent - breaking Democratic filibuster by allowing the nomination to go forward on a simple majority vote.

West Virginia's Joe Manchin III and North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp both voted in support on 81 percent of the 53 roll call confirmation votes.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Peter King said Senate Republicans should meet with and hold confirmation hearings on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland — and then reject him in committee or in a floor vote.

U.S. Senate Democrats forced a one - week delay in a committee vote on Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, who remains on track for confirmation with solid Republican backing.

Triggering an unusually personal clash, Democrats threatened to change the US Senate rules unilaterally if Republicans block yes - or - no votes on several of President Barack Obama's top - level nominees, including some long in confirmation limbo.

The Senate held a confirmation hearing for Cuomo's choice for chief judge, Westchester DA Janet DiFiore, but did not hold a final vote on her appointment.

The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last week and a round - the - clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling point during the debate over Sessions — which Democrats continued overnight.

PLATTSBURGH Mayor Colin Read's pick to fill the vacancy left by former Councilor Becky Kasper has been stalled after the Common Council deadlocked on a confirmation vote last week.

DuWayne Gregory, presiding officer of the Suffolk Legislature, which is tasked with a confirmation vote on the commissioner pick, said he thought Bellone's resistance to calling his process a nationwide search means «he probably has someone in mind.

Although the Gov appoints her successor, his decision alone, one vote and one vote only, no Senate confirmation required, they figure as president she could lean on Spitzer.

Boggs is now a Georgia Court of Appeals judge, but his Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing focused on votes and statements from when he served as a conservative Democrat in the George state legislature, from 2000 - 2004.

The left will have confirmation this week that any successor to Corbyn will be of their ilk, when a motion is passed to reduce the threshold from 15 % to 10 % for the number of MPs» votes needed to get on the leadership ballot paper (the difficulty for the left is getting backing from MPs, not from the members who ultimately chose the leader).

A quota of perhaps half a dozen reports each year, selected by the Liaison Committee composed of the chairs of all the Select Committees, should be put on to the floor of the House for debate and vote, and likewise if passed, referred on to the Lords for confirmation (or otherwise) and thence to being implemented.

Senate Republicans refused today to allow a confirmation vote on his health secretary nominee Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D - Kan.).

Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court — Confirmation — Vote Confirmed (54 - 45, 1 Not Voting) Confirmation of President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch of Colorado to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- The Senate Democratic leadership is preparing to lose a vote Wednesday morning on the confirmation of David Hayes as Deputy Secretary of Interior.

So far, no vote is scheduled on the confirmation of physicist Marc Kastner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, President Obama's choice to lead DOE's Office of Science, Malakoff writes.

Moniz welcomed today's confirmation of Orr on a voice vote.

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As you'll see from Washington's line, he only has votes from 6 out of 10 Gold Rush Gang members as some of us are holding back on votes until confirmation comes down that his film is coming out in 2017.

The statement comes ahead of a scheduled Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) vote on DeVos's confirmation.

The call was meant to put pressure on Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet to vote for the DeVos confirmation.

Opponents of the U.S. Senate tradition of the filibuster — or the extensive debate on the floor of the federal upper house geared toward preventing a vote on legislation or confirming a presidential appointee — certainly don't welcome Sen. Rand Paul's move today to exercise that privilege to prevent what would certainly be the speedy confirmation of John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

She even lost the support of a few Republicans, so that her confirmation on Feb. 7 was secured only after Vice President Pence, as presiding officer of the Senate, cast the first tiebreaking vote in U.S. history to confirm a Cabinet nominee.

February 7, 2017 — Milwaukee, WI — A coalition of school choice advocates today congratulated Betsy DeVos on her U.S. Senate confirmation vote to be Secretary of Education.

Two Republicans voted against Ms. DeVos's confirmation, a sign that some members of President Trump's party are willing to go against him, possibly foreshadowing difficulty on some of the president's more contentious legislative priorities.»

His confirmation vote is expected on Wednesday.

That vote will come on Monday with final confirmation set for Tuesday.»

Read more in this broad - ranging collection of essays that also includes a bibliography, an analysis of his voting record on key topics and his answers to First Amendment questions from his confirmation hearings.

Citing his «dissatisfaction with Lynch's written answers in response to committee members» posthearing questions,» U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R - IA) said that a confirmation vote on U.S. attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch will have to wait another two weeks....