The confirmations this week bring the total number of judicial confirmations for 2019 to 20 circuit judges and 67 district judges.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, pushing for quick confirmations, is using the confirmations of incoming President Barack Obama's nominee as the standard.
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He trailed President Barack Obama by more than 150 nominations and confirmations, and President George W. Bush by nearly 250 nominations and 200 confirmations.
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He and his family even came to my children's confirmations.
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And Raymond Arroyo exposes the theater of Supreme Court confirmations.
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Tickets are $1.5k/person, and confirmations today receive a 15% discount.
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The confirmations came from the morgue, usually by a telephone call.
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They fully support the president's Supreme Court nominees and judicial confirmations.
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That is far higher rate for confirmations than any previous president.
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Imagine that U.S. Supreme Court judicial nominations and confirmations were nonpolitical.
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"Supreme Court confirmations have become full-blown political campaigns," he said.
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Department officials have grown frustrated by the slow pace of confirmations.
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Others joined the chorus on 4chan, interspersing jokes with purported confirmations.
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Most confirmations have taken place within about three months of nomination.
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In the meantime, McConnell has promised to continue pushing through confirmations.
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But the Senate is supposed to be about more than confirmations.
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That meant only 51 votes were needed for confirmations, rather than 60.
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Some whispered that dilatory tactics could delay the confirmations until next week.
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It speaks to the intensity of the GOP's pursuit of judicial confirmations.
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Some official confirmations did come out on Friday — but only a trickle.
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Bob Corker (R-TN) voiced tepid optimism on Pompeo and Haspel's confirmations.
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"You killed nominees by committee," says one Republican involved in judicial confirmations.
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Such belated back-and-forths often delay confirmations by weeks or months.
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Official confirmations of the two nominations are expected to come next week.
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The Senate should be doing it right,But confirmations are all aglow.
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President Donald Trump incessantly boasts that appellate confirmations are his preeminent success.
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"Not to mention all of these confirmations that are backlogged," he said.
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However, 22019 is a presidential election year in which confirmations are delayed.
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And Republicans have a razor-thin margin for confirmations in the Senate.
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Schumer's tactics led to 85033 fewer confirmations than the next closest administration.
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TD Ameritrade also said trade confirmations were slow to process on Friday.
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He has participated in more than a dozen confirmations of Supreme Court nominees.
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I'm just tired of the scribbled out dates, the media confirmations, the lies.
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What to watch for: Confirmations or clarifications on how firing Comey went down.
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It is not true that confirmations of investigations are improper on their face.
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The group recently launched a $1.5 million national ad campaign targeting judicial confirmations.
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The internet grief cycle is too fast: reports, confirmations, tweets, analysis, opinion pieces.
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But people just looked-- they-- they got their confirmations for the stock price.
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During the last Congress, the Trump administration broke records for appellate seat confirmations.
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And Trump continues to show his frustration with the slow pace of cabinet confirmations.
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Once travel and hotel confirmations come through, travelers can forward the information to TripSee.
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They can threaten to hold up confirmations or legislation until they get their way.
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According to the analysis, the Trump administration has also fallen behind on ambassador confirmations.
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Trump and administration officials have repeatedly lamented the pace of confirmations on Capitol Hill.
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The Republican-held Senate set a record pace for judge confirmations earlier this year.
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If someone's pregnant, you'll hear rumors, but no confirmations until the new episode airs.
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SendGrid helps businesses like Spotify or Airbnb send email confirmations, password reminders and more.
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A Polish airline called LOT would sublease the remaining aircraft, subject to certain confirmations.
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And wouldn't online confirmations be more efficient than a phone call from her mother?
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Patent filings also aren't confirmations the ideas will ever make it into real products.
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Ted Cruz of Texas said, citing tax reform, regulation overhauls and Republican judicial confirmations.
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The consequence: 187 judicial confirmations, the most of any president since before Ronald Reagan.
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As Senate majority and minority leader, he frequently battled with McConnell on judicial confirmations.
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They secured the hard-fought confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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He lamented the pace of his Cabinet confirmations during a news conference earlier this month.
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Senate Republicans said on Thursday they were confident of winning Cabinet confirmations early next year.
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And the judicial confirmations have been a real bright spot for conservatives with this administration.
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Similarly, Citadel could be required to note its settlement on trade confirmations sent to clients.
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Cornyn acknowledged Monday that the slow pace of confirmations has hampered the GOP policy agenda.
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Until those steps are taken, Schumer said, the Senate should not move forward on confirmations.
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There was a rush of confirmations toward the end of 2014 when the majority flipped.
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For much of our history, confirmations were debated and voted directly on the Senate floor.
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Investigations, public hearings, and judicial confirmations have consumed months of committee time and staff resources.
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"I look forward to their quick and fair confirmations on the Senate floor," Hatch said.
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And he's even tied President Ronald Reagan number of appeals court confirmations in year one.
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"We're developing all sorts of neurological proofs, or confirmations of what we're doing," he says.
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Confirmations tend to reward young lawyers who avoid controversies to advancement on the Supreme Court.
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Yes, it has limped on for legislative business that does not deal with judicial confirmations.
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Outside conservative activists and groups are no longer blaming Senate Democrats for holding up confirmations.
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At least 74 buildings have reportedly been destroyed, though there are no confirmations of fatalities.
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It is a longstanding tradition in the Senate that confirmations are done in bipartisan pairs.
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Where the same party controls both the Senate and presidency, they argue, confirmations may proceed.
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Democrats take a more genteel approach to judicial confirmations of nominees from the opposition party.
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Slow confirmations have adverse impacts, depriving courts of necessary resources and many litigants of justice.
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Here is a look at some other major confirmations fights — and how they turned out.
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Split confirmations, pregnancies, baby births, divorce confirmations, weddings, Timothée Chalamet's red carpet appearances, dating rumors and lots of Star Is Born chatter (never enough!) have all become one huge clusterfuck of headlines that most normal civilians do not have the patience to sift through.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of Grassley's committee that is overseeing the confirmations for the candidates, previously said he could oppose the confirmations and cited the three courts' power to issue indictments in the ongoing investigation into possible Russian influence in the 2016 election.
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Democrats have hoped to delay the confirmations of Trump nominees they see as most objectionable. Sen.
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Social media haters forced Davidson to make one of the most depressing confirmations of coupledom ever.
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President Ronald Reagan secured the most judicial confirmations among the recent two-term presidents with 402.
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That includes the ability to do things like send appointment confirmations and reminders automatically, for example.
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Senators have spent most of the first 100 days plowing through confirmations of Trump administration nominees.
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In the Senate, that would mean McConnell continues his focus on judicial and executive branch confirmations.
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However, the State Department has expressed approval at the pace of confirmations in the passing month.
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In the past the White House has complained that Democrats were slowing the process for confirmations.
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President Trump has now already surpassed the last four presidents' records for first-year judicial confirmations.
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Judicial confirmations are more contentious and vitriolic than at any other point in the nation's history.
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The Constitution does not have a time frame for confirmations, and this is chafing the Democrats.
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You can see that in the way the confirmations process is going on in the Senate.
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This had shortened the period for confirmations to a few days from a couple of weeks.
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Environmental groups and progressive Democrats are planning their opposition strategy with hopes of blocking their confirmations.
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Both results were public confirmations of how collectors' tastes have shifted toward black and female artists.
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Senator Kamala D. Harris of California, who was elected last year, opposed the confirmations of Gen.
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Social conservatives have largely hailed the rapid pace of Senate confirmations of conservative Trump judicial nominees.
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Republicans say he exceeded McConnell by slowing the confirmations of Trump's Cabinet nominees to a crawl.
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With the exception of Justice Willett, all had already undergone F.B.I. background checks and Senate confirmations.
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MORE and 741 for George W. Bush, and Trump remains 85033 confirmations behind both former presidents.
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She also said there have been 102 fewer confirmations so far than the next closest administration.
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I have been a guest in their homes and at their first communions, graduations, confirmations, weddings.
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But the Democrats have been very reluctant to engage on judicial confirmations over the past few decades.
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Over a thousand people, including the heads of all federal agencies are going to face Senate confirmations.
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In fact, we've already had some confirmations on what fans want to see in the new season.
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Despite zero confirmations from Marvel, Black Widow is rumored to have begun production this summer in London.
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When presidents do wrong, Congress can issue subpoenas, compel testimony, withhold bills, confirmations, program funding, or impeach.
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Confirmations: The Senate Intelligence Committee scheduled a confirmation hearing Wednesday for Gina Haspel to lead the CIA.
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Democrats appeared similarly unconcerned about the intersection of wealth and power during previous confirmations for President Obama.
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For this reason, the Senate can't sit by idly and put a rubber-stamp on these confirmations.
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During the Bush and Obama administrations, senators also played hardball with confirmations; it's par for the course.
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Without those confirmations, the agency lacks a quorum to support financing for United States exports and jobs.
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Given the deep partisan polarization in America, lifetime appointments have also turned confirmations into epic political battles.
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Democrats have insisted that history remember who toppled this final emblem of minority party influence over confirmations.
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He twice changed Senate rules to create a record-setting assembly line of conservative federal judicial confirmations.
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The upcoming whirlwind of hearings isn't the first time the Senate has pushed for such quick confirmations.
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Both Loyola's Levinson and North Carolina's Gerhardt believe Senate priorities can partially explain the pace of confirmations.
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Even on judicial confirmations – where the Senate has gotten a lot of credit – there are credibility issues.
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However, if you're pining for the good old days of decorous hearings and confirmations by acclamation, stop.
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A Spatial Model of Roll Call Voting: Senators, Constituents, Presidents, and Interest Groups in Supreme Court Confirmations.
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Richard Blumenthal told CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday, pointing to confirmations from Gorsuch's spokesperson and several other Senate colleagues.
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In fact, Schumer said GOP handling of several of the nominations could cause Democrats to slow down confirmations.
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Democrats object The two Inauguration Day confirmations were fewer than the seven targeted by the Trump transition team.
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" Next came a pair of Mary Janes, which mothers started buying for "sweet sixteens, bat mitzvahs and confirmations.
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ODELL: This is a hit for Senate Republican leadership, which is picking up the pace on judicial confirmations.
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The Democrats have done everything possible to obstruct these confirmations, and Republicans are finally able to get moving.
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That could cut down on accidental confirmations, as users will explicitly have to agree to this data sharing.
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And since Republicans took charge of the Senate in 2015, judicial confirmations have virtually ground to a halt.
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In 2015, there were fewer civilian confirmations than in any first session of Congress in nearly 30 years.
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Foursquare expands the truth set for machine learning exponentially by adding in our over 13 billion consumer confirmations.
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As the trip's date neared and we all started to receive flight confirmations, my heart began to race.
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The Dot does have a small built-in speaker, which works great for Alexa's voice replies and confirmations.
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The Senate also made a slew of confirmations and passed several measures before shutting down for the summer.
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Chuck Grassley of Iowa, followed up its hearing announcement by tweeting the timelines for previous FBI director confirmations.
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It's very hard to get around the fact that there are forged wire transfer confirmations from Deutsche Bank.
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The IconX has voice confirmations for each action, and it is managed by an app on the phone.
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Second, Trump's poor record of confirmations to date is linked to a generally downward trend for recent presidents.
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Now back in the minority, Democrats have, in turn, utilized the same procedural tactics to delay Trump's confirmations.
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Impeachment is not only likely to stop legislation, but it could also cause a decrease in judicial confirmations.
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For example, he voted against the confirmations of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel.
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Appellate judges accounted for just two of those confirmations, fewer than at any time since the 19th century.
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She told her friend she would reimburse her and later sent her fake wire confirmations, the indictment said.
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The president and his team have previously criticized Democrats for holding up the confirmations of his Cabinet nominees.
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While the nominee confirmations are not guaranteed, they set the stage to contemplate improvements to EXIM's accountability framework.
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He chided Dems for delaying Cabinet confirmations, specifically citing Chao, Carson, and Haley as "unbelievably qualified" consensus nominees.
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It also is worth noting that majority-party senators do not always deliver confirmations for same-party presidents.
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A mobile laboratory has been set up to expedite case confirmations in Bikoro; another is planned for Mbandaka.
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In fact, Democrats often are able to pick thoroughbreds from the progressive left, who sail through their confirmations.
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It would create precedent for justices to be retroactively investigated on allegations raised but rejected in their confirmations.
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Gerhardt called judicial confirmations one of the highest priorities for Trump and Senate Republicans, along with national security.
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In a 2002 article reflecting on Justice White's death, Mr. Gorsuch criticized the Senate's handling of judicial confirmations.
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Murkowski and other GOP senators have repeatedly criticized Democrats for trying to delay confirmations of Trump administration officials.
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"I want to point out that it's a marked contrast to the traditional rate of confirmations," she said.
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The Republicans, after they regained the majority in the 2014 elections, retaliated by essentially shutting down judicial confirmations.
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So conservatives are eager to ram through as many judicial confirmations as they can in this window of opportunity.
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Animosity over judicial confirmations reached its climax with the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.
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Trump complained about the pace of confirmations Friday in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
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Trump's path toward Senate confirmations of nominees will be easier than the one faced by most of his predecessors.
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If we consider Supreme Court nominations and confirmations from that era, we see a distinct pattern of Democrats splitting.
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The day before Bounds' hearing, the Senate pressed ahead with a proposed rules change to speed up judicial confirmations.
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A department official said they could not release the data behind their confirmations as it "is law enforcement sensitive."
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Because filibusters can no longer be used for confirmations, it only takes 51 Senate votes to approve a nominee.
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Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell, he&aposs been able to secure confirmations for 000 federal appellate court judges nominated by Trump.
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Best of all, if you need access to the original e-mails with confirmations, it's just a tap away.
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In just one month, almost 5,000 businesses have used chatbots to send order confirmations and automated alerts through Messenger.
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Schumer, a master of parliamentary procedures, has blocked or delayed dozens of confirmations, drawing condemnation from the White House.
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Whether it's a face mask selfie or matching tattoos, here are the best cosmetic couple confirmations in the game.
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For example, Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg each received more than 90 votes in their confirmations.
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"It's too soon for any confirmations about 2017," Jean-Daniel Compain, the Biennale's general director, said in an email.
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George W. Bush effectively made lower court nominations and Senate confirmations the centerpiece of his 21625 and 2900 campaigns.
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It's worth noting too that although we try every time, we never had formal confirmations about Biba, or Harvest.
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The bottom line: Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have already set a breakneck pace for judicial confirmations.
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Still, both Lewis and Reynolds suspect once the cabinet is done, confirmations will stop consuming huge gobs of time.
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Another incoming member, Haley Stevens of Michigan, was once in charge of Mr. Obama's Senate confirmations and cabinet designations.
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Usually, justices, trying to appear above it all, do not get publicly involved in the fights about their confirmations.
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Shopify's software helps sellers provide live customer support, send order confirmations and shipping updates through the Facebook messenger platform.
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The organization has recommended countless judicial appointees to the president and then played a key role in their confirmations.
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" These days, Chief Justice Roberts said last year of Supreme Court confirmations, "the process is not functioning very well.
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Meanwhile, Trump has lagged behind other presidents — excluding Obama — when it comes to confirmations of lower district court nominees.
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The original report, via The Morning Breath, and subsequent confirmations from other outlets, like People, all hinge on anonymous sources.
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Nokia's Symbian system was cumbersome for users, who had to send confirmations whenever any function was added to the phone.
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Consistent with all of President Donald Trump's Cabinet confirmations this week, Price narrowly won confirmation on a 52 - 47 vote.
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Not only are activists energized, but their elected representatives have begun obstructing the business of Cabinet confirmations on Capitol Hill.
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While Democrats can complain about the process and delay confirmations, they are limited in their ability actually to block nominees.
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I mean I -- I agree with Karl, it would be nice if we could have non-partisan or bipartisan confirmations.
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Rumblings about the matchup happened as early as last week, but official confirmations weren't made until Wednesday of this week.
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GILDED teacups, brocade curtains and public confirmations of private-jet transfers all contribute to the atmosphere in London's poshest hotels.
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Trump has made 237 nominations and just 51 confirmations, according to CNN data compiled with the Partnership for Public Service.
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Caroline Chambers is deputy director of the Open Society Policy Center and served as President Obama's first director of confirmations.
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The FCC will now return to its full quorum after the confirmations of Republican Brendan Carr and Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel.
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Confirmations generally are seen as not just the culmination but the celebration of a career leading to the Supreme Court.
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Confirmations have now become politics by other means and, as Kurtz said, "perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure" in their savagery.
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But with confirmations and denials coming from both Pryor and Brando's family members, the mystery is only continuing to grow.
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McConnell has been critical of Democratic efforts to delay action on Trump's nominees and has vowed to speed up confirmations.
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The Senate should aspire to fill the 140 vacancies and more in our federal courts by moving forward with confirmations.
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Trump is outpacing President Barack Obama in circuit court confirmations and overall judicial nominations at this point in their presidencies.
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What do these confirmations mean for the challenge to net neutrality rules that has garnered more than 10 million comments?
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Now, read the article, "A New Reality for Court Confirmations: Pandemonium, Protesters and Partisanship," and answer the following questions: 1.
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Besides blue slips, the other remaining impediment to a flurry of judicial confirmations is time – Senate floor time that is.
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"Holding up confirmations just for delay's sake is irresponsible and it is dangerous," said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
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However, appellate confirmations have exacted a toll, particularly on the district courts that must address 80 openings in 677 posts.
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Recent presidents have been afforded almost twice as many Senate confirmations going into their third year as has Donald Trump.
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They've been working around the clock to verify donation confirmations as best they can and reply with the promised nude.
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The same thing happened with the chief justice's and Justice Kagan's confirmations; The New York Times is in good company.
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Several other nominees are expected to be considered by other Senate committees this week, clearing the path for their confirmations.
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Those senators who were grandstanding during Kathleen's confirmations hearing recently will not be satisfied with anyone nominated by President Trump.
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In 2013, Democrats changed the rules requiring a 60-vote majority for such confirmations to only needing a simple majority.
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The remaining reviews are spread out over force plays, hit-by-pitch confirmations, home-plate collisions, and assorted other judgment calls.
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Democratic aides, noting that there are 20 pending nominations waiting floor action, are hopeful there will be more confirmations after Waverly.
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Their confirmations will fill critically important roles in ensuring that all Americans benefit from clean air, clean water, and clean land.
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"After Ashlynd's parents received 13 order confirmations for Pokémon items, they initially thought they'd been hacked," the Wall Street Journal reports.
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This is another awesome email add-on, but this one scans your inbox in search of shopping receipts and order confirmations.
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Further confirmations were made with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, the Isaac Newton Telescope in Spain, among other contributors.
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I placed a quick call to her and she said I'd have the confirmations in my inbox when I touched down.
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Even when groups are not successful in derailing appointments or confirmations, these targets' status as public enemy was good for fundraising.
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After many of Trump's nominees sailed through their confirmations in recent weeks, the names currently before the Senate were meeting resistance.
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This is because the TCP layer basically engages in a series of confirmations when sending or receiving data on the internet.
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Scientists need to collect more observations of these flashes in a coordinated way, with independent confirmations, to account for observational error.
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There is hope that Kavanaugh's "Network" moment may have awakened the public to the need for a new approach to confirmations.
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The group showed the police their booking confirmations and phoned the home's landlord to convince police they were telling the truth.
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She believes Trump will see a "big bump" in confirmations before the end of his first year in office in January.
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But donors believe their funds went through, as PayPal provides confirmations of this, even when the organizations haven't claimed the funds.
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The enterprise solution will allow global companies "to provide customers with useful notifications like flight times, delivery confirmations, and other updates".
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In a statement released Sunday, Schumer said the OGE expressed "serious reservations" about the Cabinet confirmations schedule being pursued by Republicans.
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She showed the officers their booking confirmations and called the landlord, and the group was detained for 45 minutes, she said.
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Klobuchar added that the next Democratic president will need to make judicial confirmations more of a priority than previous administrations have.
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But what is really sticking in the president's craw is the glacial pace of confirmations in the Senate — which is intentional.
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Public opposition to Kavanaugh's confirmation to the court is higher than it was in advance of several of his predecessors' confirmations.
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He has 29 judicial confirmations already this year, he's got three more district court judges queued up when they get back.
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The declines followed confirmations of more cases of the virus and several large U.S. companies' suspension of their business in China.
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And approving eight nominees more than doubles the number of Pentagon confirmations in the Trump administration, bringing the total to 15.
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For example, Lottery Pool Boss allows players to prepay for pools, track their prepaid balances and receive email confirmations of payments.
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Since the President announced his intent to nominate Moore and Cain, concerns have arisen about challenges for both of their confirmations.
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He's having unprecedented difficulty getting his Cabinet nominees confirmed even though the Senate's rules have changed to make confirmations easier than ever.
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The figures below show Trump indeed has had the least successful run of Senate confirmations since George H.W. Bush back in 1989.
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Republicans have argued Democrats are slow-walking the nominees and have fallen far short of the pace from confirmations of previous administrations.
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Still, some of the most vocal voices against Trump confirmations have been red-state Democrats who are facing tough reelections in November.
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Even Obama's last two picks, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, were just 55 and 50 at the time of their respective confirmations.
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Despite expert confirmations of the damages inflicted by the dentist, none of the victims have yet been compensated for their harrowing experiences.
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As the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, he oversees legislation regarding NASA, as well as Senate confirmations to the agency.
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Several members found that Amazon did the latter, but others instead got order confirmations and even notices about a product immediately shipping.
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Democrats and environmentalists pulled out the stops against both Wheeler and Pruitt's confirmations and can be expected to voice their opposition again.
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After their confirmations, both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito ruled against abortion rights both times the subject came before the court.
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Looking at how individual lawmakers voted on the bills and confirmations, the report found a stark divide between Republican and Democratic records.
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While the fights with other senators like Flake et al may grab headlines, these judicial confirmations will have a much bigger impact.
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He would then serve in the historic role of presiding over at least one and as many as three Supreme Court confirmations.
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He served in the Department of Justice under Attorney General Edwin Meese and worked on the confirmations of Justices Rehnquist and Scalia.
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There are no fees on wealth stored via bitcoin, and it takes relatively little time for funds to clear via network confirmations.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing the candidate's confirmations, said he is considering opposing the nominations.
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He's having unprecedented difficulty getting his Cabinet nominees confirmed, even though the Senate's rules have changed to make confirmations easier than ever.
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The confirmations will remake the federal judiciary, stocking it with young and very conservative judges who will serve for decades to come.
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Others were rated as qualified but carried with them politically or racially insensitive remarks from their past that resurfaced during their confirmations.
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Since Mr. Trump took office in 2017, his alliance with Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, on judicial confirmations has proved exceedingly successful.
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At the end of his first year in office, Trump lagged far behind his most recent predecessors in both nominations and confirmations.
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The polarization of the court itself, with a pronounced rightward swing among its conservatives, has also helped turn confirmations into political battles.
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As Judiciary chairman in the last Congress, Grassley oversaw the hotly contested confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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Though such missions are not uncommon, both Taiwan and the U.S. made unusual public confirmations of the ships&apos passage over the weekend.
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It can pre-fill things like trip dates from your calendar, and car preferences based on previous rental confirmations found in your Gmail.
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That's a return achievable without trying to time the market exactly because the reversal points and confirmations are clear and easy to follow.
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Garland's stalled nomination helped push the issue into the spotlight, educating voters about the role the president and Senate play in judicial confirmations.
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These confirmations included our Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Kim Breier and our Assistant Secretary for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, Denise Natali.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who also serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing the candidate's confirmations, said he is considering opposing the nominations.
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The amendment could say that responsibility for judicial confirmations would switch to the House and some bills would no longer require Senate approval.
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It was the day before the show and there were still a lot of confirmations that had to be made — particularly with casting.
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The Trump White House remains slow in filling important federal openings; lagging behind Bush and Obama in appointments and confirmations by wide margins.
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I fear that this hearing may represent a move away from that, and back to the days of confirmations as back room deals.
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Mr. Trump came into office with more than 100 judicial vacancies; relaxed Senate rules on confirmations have allowed him to fill them quickly.
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As dusk settled, one lawmaker apologized to a group of court nominees who had waited all day to have their confirmations voted on.
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Within an hour, Stollar and Rodriguez had received email confirmations from a Hungarian travel agent for their flights back to Boca Raton, Fla.
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However, confirmations of person-to-person transmission in Germany, Vietnam, Taiwan and Japan - as opposed to a traveller from China - has heightened concern.
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Receipts and order confirmations are a necessary step to closing the sale, so use them as more opportunities to engage with your customers.
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A well set-up bank would also have additional confirmations required for transfers that empty out accounts or are over a certain amount.
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These confirmations become all the more urgent when one considers that Democrats, for all their talk, actually have no means of blocking them.
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True, the majority leader did get Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court by eliminating the last 60 vote threshold for judicial confirmations.
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The Supreme Court confirmations are big -- that's what sent the NRA over the line, because in '12, with Denny (Rehberg), they stayed out.
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I like to book directly through hotels and airlines, and TripIt has saved me from endlessly searching through my email to find confirmations.
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We went to each other's birthday parties, Bar Mitzvahs and confirmations - which meant more envelopes containing money at the end of the night.
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The A.T.F. has been without a confirmed director since April; the White House has blamed a backlog of confirmations in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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As the theory took shape, he began to notice apparent confirmations for it in everything from Greek mythology to the films of Ingmar Bergman.
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ORRIN HATCH, R-UTAH: I participated in the last 14 Supreme Court confirmation battles, including the confirmations of all current members of the court.
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Now, finally after some recent confirmations by the U.S. Senate, the commission is nearing its intended size and is now signaling its priorities ahead.
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She became the fourth member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to be approved as Republicans and Democrats battle angrily over the pace of confirmations.
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This piece uses stamps collected from around the world on which due dates, paid confirmations, privacy notifications, and other official stamps decorate the paper.
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And given the bench's conservative slant after Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh's confirmations under President Donald Trump, that may be a real possibility.
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I am very actively involved in the Catholic community and have been in several retreats and have stood with several men at their confirmations.
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These businesses will be able to use our solutions to provide customers with useful notifications like flight times, delivery confirmations, and other updates. Interesting.
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This nomination battle comes at a particularly inconvenient time for Senate Republicans, as they are currently trying to speed up the timing of confirmations.
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That difference does not account for the vast discrepancy in confirmations—49 for Mr Trump compared with 203 for Mr Obama by July 2009.
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After another nine months of work we were able to quantify all that and to get some numerical confirmations for the impressions we'd gotten.
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Although China has not made large purchases in recent weeks, past sales confirmations in the USDA's weekly sales report have triggered steep futures rallies.
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Roberts pointed to the smooth confirmations of a past generation, alluding to cases like Scalia's 1986 confirmation on a vote of 98 to 0.
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Since 2015, Republican senators, including Lamar Alexander and Roy Blunt, have been talking seriously about getting rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court confirmations.
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The tables notes that the confirmations under committees chaired by Democrats had moved nominees forward to the full Senate after less than 10 days.
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Senate Democrats did so for judge and executive branch confirmations in 2013, and Republicans for confirming Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch earlier this year.
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The dysfunctions within Congress are too numerous to explore here, but two of the most obvious examples are the broken confirmations and appropriations processes.
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Trump needs to keep the 52 Republicans in the 100-seat Senate on his side to secure the simple majority votes needed for confirmations.
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Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader and a longtime central player in judicial confirmations, assailed the quality of Mr. Trump's nominees.
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With floor time in the Senate a precious commodity, the GOP leadership has little choice but to prioritize confirmations amidst other pressing legislative business.
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Kavanaugh's denials that he was involved with Manuel Miranda's scheme to pilfer Democratic staff emails related to judicial confirmations also appear to be bogus.
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Assuming those elections produce a Senate pretty much as it is now, the cycle of extreme nominations and denied confirmations theoretically could continue indefinitely.
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Mr. Kyl, the White House noted, served on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmations of four of the last five Supreme Court justices.
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The hackers were able to change customer phone numbers and addresses so account statements and confirmations would be rerouted without triggering a fraud alert.
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With the filibuster for lower-court judicial nominations eliminated, Obama was able to score more than 100 judicial confirmations in just over a year.
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Sasse, in his remarks at the hearing, lambasted "hysteria" around Supreme Court confirmations and attributed it to an overly partisan understanding of the judiciary.
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But after the refugee uproar and the standoff over Cabinet confirmations, the level of cooperation between the parties has fallen from zero to subzero.
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Bank of America hid the secret trading activity by reprogramming its systems to alter confirmations sent to clients about how their trades were handled.
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The confirmations were welcomed by the energy industry, which has seen infrastructure projects languish while the commission has been without a three-member quorum.
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For their part, Republicans are frustrated that Democrats are slow-walking confirmations by taking advantage of Senate rules that allow 30 hours of debate.
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While Reid was Majority Leader, especially in the period before the 2014 midterm elections, he put judicial confirmations at the top of his agenda.
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Similarities between then and now Even separated by 27 years and with a transformed committee, several similarities exist between the Thomas and Kavanaugh confirmations.
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The first reason is the effective blockade Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell imposed on appellate court confirmations the moment Republicans took over the Senate.
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When I ran the Roberts and Alito confirmations Ed Whalen was the singularly most important and effective outside advisor involved in the confirmation effort.
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Trump has nominated former Fed staffer Nellie Liang and Carnegie Mellon economist Marvin Goodfriend, but their confirmations have been stalled in the Senate for months.
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Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and John Roberts all got 252 votes or more in favor of their confirmations.
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"So something similar to the oil I bless and consecrate each year that we use for baptism, for confirmations and for ordination of the priests."
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The reason for this, a department spokesman said, is that victims cannot in every instance remember, or the subsequent investigations fail to make necessary confirmations.
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That list of early adopters includes the trio of skills going live today, as well as Just Eat, which was going to provide order confirmations.
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This is the final catalog detailing exoplanet candidates and confirmations from Kepler's survey taken during the first four years observing part of the constellation Cygnus.
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The Senate confirmed only two Trump picks on Friday, the day he was sworn in, a slate of confirmations so scant it left Republicans fuming.
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If you participated last summer, you know that we had some trouble with that system and had to hand-email confirmations to many of you.
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For example, we have learned that the Trump administration is well behind the pace of the Bush and Obama administrations in both nominations and confirmations.
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No doubt during the confirmations process, many senators will continue to voice their support for the political spending rule-making and more disclosure writ large.
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The government's recall announcement said that no confirmations have been made that anyone's actually gotten sick from the pizzas, but that the risk is high.
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Up next in the onslaught of increasingly terrifying confirmations is the full Senate vote today on the CEO of ExxonMobil to become Secretary of State.
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And there is also the matter of the Supreme Court and the many other judicial vacancies left by the Senate's decision to halt judicial confirmations.
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According to a Washington Post analysis, Trump's administration has seen more circuit court judge confirmations, as of September, than any of the past five presidents.
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And with dozens of Mr. Trump's judicial and sub-cabinet nominees held up by Democrats, Senate Republicans invoked a "nuclear option" to speed up confirmations.
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From 2017 to 2018, Ms. Klobuchar voted to advance Mr. Trump's judicial confirmations 64 percent of the time, according to Demand Justice, the advocacy group.
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As a member of the Judiciary Committee for 20023 of his 18 years in the Senate, Mr. Feingold has extensive firsthand experience in judicial confirmations.
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"I'm afraid he's kind of stuck in the world of Mitch McConnell," Durbin said, referencing the GOP leader's prioritization of judicial confirmations in the Senate.
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Mail containing reservations, confirmations, bills, account statements and other automatically generated transaction messages fall under the Updates tab in the full Gmail Priority Inbox setup.
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The statement will echo findings released by Georgia's own security services today, and US officials say they expect confirmations from multiple other governments to follow.
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And by calling up the judicial nominations now, McConnell will force Democrats to swallow more confirmations before their imperiled incumbents can leave Washington to campaign.
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Still, the confirmations could stretch on for a while given the political divide in Congress and the debate about financial regulation in the presidential election.
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And Reid's most controversial move as leader — invoking the "nuclear option" on Senate confirmations — will leave his party essentially powerless to halt Trump's Cabinet selections.
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Despite the quick votes, the nominees were not included in a group of dozens of confirmations that the Senate made later Thursday by unanimous consent.
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In 2017, McConnell expanded the simple majority procedure to include Supreme Court confirmations in order to overcome Democratic opposition to Trump's first nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
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Everlane had essentially used Messenger as an alternative to email, sending messages with order confirmations and shipping updates to customers who opted into the communication method.
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A top GOP leadership aide said more confirmations are likely in the months ahead, at least until the Senate recesses in July for the party conventions.
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Trump had a record number of appeals court judges confirmed in his first year, and Republicans and the White House have made judicial confirmations a priority.
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"If the families indeed had travel confirmations, we would like to understand why there are families sleeping in a church in San Antonio tonight," Hurtado said.
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" "The GOP increased its majority in the Senate by several seats, which will make confirmations of judges and administration officials easier and overriding his vetoes harder.
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Far from being unusual, the hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations in U.S. history.
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Trump has withdrawn one nominee for every 11 confirmations, the worst ratio of any other president from George H.W. Bush to Obama, according to the data.
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After a June report from Fusion saying Facebook used location data to suggest friends, Facebook initially confirmed the report, then walked back its confirmations after backlash.
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Amazon, for example, is apparently testing a new "brief mode" for Alexa devices that replaces some of the virtual assistant's verbal responses and confirmations with beeps.
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"We are awaiting confirmations from the other parties to the meeting," Abdrakhmanov told parliament, adding that delegations had already started arriving in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
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The list of eight confirmations included Richard Spencer to be Secretary of the Navy and Ellen Lord to be the Undersecretary of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
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Because of the scarcity of the hotly anticipated device, sellers have been scalping their pre-order confirmations on eBay, hoping to cash in on consumer demand.
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Yet the 20th century provides six examples of election-year confirmations, as Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog notes, including the unanimous vote confirming Anthony Kennedy in 1988.
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Mr. Trump also hailed the rising stock market, judicial confirmations and the recent killing by American forces of the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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With the confirmations of Trump nominees Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, conservatives believe they have shifted the high court to the right, potentially for decades to come.
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Committee hearings and confirmations may become the routine for the next Congress, but it was not why most voters turned out at the polls in November.
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The EPI report makes clear that these confirmations would disproportionately affect people of color and other marginalized communities who now represent the labor rank-and-file.
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Most exchanges require 6 or 7 block confirmations before they credit a deposit, so you can see how it's basically impossible to move around bitcoin cash.
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Mr. Pompeo would oversee the action, and the State Department is bracing for lawmakers to stall confirmations on all State Department nominees if it is implemented.
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Roomer handles the booking transfers and issues confirmations so that buyers booking on the site will find the reservations in their names when they check in.
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For the most part, those nominees have passed through the Senate (though often along party-line votes) with the ministerial ease once expected for judicial confirmations.
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Leonard A. Leo, the Federalist Society's executive vice president, has advised Mr. Trump on judicial nominations and worked on the confirmations of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
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Third, his party has wisely stopped trying to pass major new legislation, abandoning an unpopular agenda in favor of behind-the-scenes deregulation and judicial confirmations.
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"Look, the president's judicial selection process has led to a historic pace of confirmations, including 12 circuit court justices and a Supreme Court Justice," Sanders said.
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TD Ameritrade, also experienced "some slowness in the reporting of trade confirmations this morning related to heavy trade volumes at the open," the broker told CNBC.
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Democrats delayed the confirmations of Mr. Trump's picks to lead the Treasury and the Health and Human Services Department, refusing to attend scheduled votes on Tuesday.
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But McConnell is still a hard-nosed partisan, scheming throughout the year to steamroll Senate Democrats whom he believes are hellbent on slowing down judicial confirmations.
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The Senate must approve Cabinet nominations and with a narrowly divided body, Trump needs to rally nearly every Republican to his side in order to ensure confirmations.
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The Post will send notifications for breaking news (just imagine this scoop read by Alexa), Just Eat will send order confirmations, and AccuWeather will deliver weather updates.
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Republicans and conservative advocacy groups have accused Democrats of forcing cloture votes even for noncontroversial nominees to create a logjam and slow down the pace of confirmations.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who believes Grassley could under enough pressure flip his position, blamed the Iowan also for slowing down confirmations of lower court judges.
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Don't provide any additional, optional, or new information like a driver's license or phone number, and consider making a burner email just to receive opt-out confirmations.
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Since the unsuccessful Republican effort to confirm President Ronald Reagan's nominee Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987, abortion has been a central issue in confirmations.
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Ryan said Senate GOP leaders had asked for the delay — which replaces the initial end date of March 85033 — to accommodate their "crowded schedule" with Cabinet confirmations.
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That leaves Congress with an array of powers to respond to any continued failure by Rosenstein and the Justice Department, from appropriations t to confirmations to contempt.
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Anne O'Connell, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied the presidential appointment process, expects confirmations for Trump administration jobs to pick up.
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Given Senate Democrats' utter aversion to these nominees and a huge public pushback, especially regarding Devos, their confirmations can only be seen as huge wins for Trump.
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Senate Democrats are accusing Republicans of delaying action on President Obama's nominees, pointing to a new report that shows a decline in confirmations under the GOP Senate.
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Last year, it became one of the first movers among European utilities by testing developer BTL's Interbit blockchain platform to achieve satisfactory speed in gas trade confirmations.
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And as the Washington Examiner's Ryan Lovelace points out, on Thursday afternoon, Trump broke the record for appeals court confirmations for a president's first year in office.
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Deputy secretaries have already been through grueling Senate confirmations, thus mostly eliminating the element of surprise in an administration not known for employing a stringent vetting process.
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So if you are paranoid about privacy, create a separate email account just for travel documents and forward all your itineraries and booking confirmations to that address.
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Until the administration gets Senate confirmations of the political positions it decides to keep, professional diplomats and civil servants are filling the jobs on an acting basis.
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Before the confirmations, only two members were on the board, which was short of the quorum needed to sign off on deals of more than $10 million.
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The confirmations mean that the Trump administration, after eight months, will finally have two of the top people in place who decide if mergers may go forward.
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"There is no doubt in my mind that he was referring to these attacks," Blumenthal told Cooper, pointing to confirmations from Gorsuch's spokesperson and several other Senate colleagues.
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Businesses will still only be able to message people who contacted them first, but the API will help them programatically send shipping confirmations, appointment reminders or event tickets.
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Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and the pace of lower court confirmations the greatest achievement of his career.
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So I think we can expect several confirmations next week, including my home state of Michigan&aposs Joan Larsen who is slated to head to the Sixth Circuit.
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Meanwhile, in Congress, Trump's Cabinet secretary confirmations continued to crawl forward, with both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin winning Senate approval Monday night.
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It is true, as Murkowski stated, that the president needs to direct the FBI to conduct the full background check that is historically normal and routine in confirmations.
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Under current Senate rules, a 21625-vote supermajority is needed to close down filibusters on Supreme Court confirmations, clearing the way for a final up-or-down vote.
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"As a result, I expect the committee will be able to undertake its thorough review process along the same timeline set in previous Supreme Court confirmations," he said.
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And to all the more recent outrages of birtherism, government shutdowns, delayed Supreme Court confirmations and, ultimately, the rise of a would-be autocrat as a party nominee.
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They attended a ceremony installing a McConnell-backed federal judge, underscoring the leader's well-known passion for judicial confirmations while giving the majority leader's detractors a fat target.
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"From the narrow perspective of judicial confirmations, yesterday's elections were a huge success," Ed Whelan, a conservative commentator on judicial confirmation issues, wrote on the National Review website.
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"Two of your competitors have already confirmed that they will not be advertising their products going forward, and we expect more confirmations to come soon," Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.
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McCarthy touted on Monday's "Fox & Friends" Republicans' accomplishments -- citing their tax legislation, regulatory rollback and judicial confirmations -- as he struck a publicly optimistic tone about the 2018 elections.
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What the hearing should do is disabuse Americans of any fantasy that potential Supreme Court justices are above politics or that their confirmations can possibly be politics-free.
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The final confirmations for 2019 come as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has turned his attention to approving district court nominees, after filling virtually every circuit court vacancy.
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Under Trump, McConnell's turned the Senate into a machine that churns out judicial confirmations and does little else — he's ignored literally hundreds of bills passed by the House.
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The barrier, as employed by both parties, is at the heart of an escalating fight over the pace of confirmations and the Trump administration's ability to fill jobs.
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Since he became president in January 2017, Trump has won confirmation of 37 appeals court judges, compared to 55 appeals court judge confirmations during Obama's entire eight years.
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That moment was to me one of the many confirmations that we have something truly special going on here, in the sense of the characterization of black metal.
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In my case, I had a very lengthy spreadsheet within Google Docs that was housing all of my hotel, flight, and excursion confirmations for an upcoming trip to Spain.
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GOP leadership aides say any confirmations that happen on Inauguration Day will need to be done by voice vote, a reflection of the non-controversial nature of the choices.
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Several of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks who face potentially tense upcoming hearings on Capitol Hill have donated hundreds of thousands to the senators who will vote on their confirmations.
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Mortality: While Messionnier says they've received no confirmations of AFM deaths this season, CNN reported recently that some some parents are accusing the CDC of not reporting children's deaths.
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But Republicans know the events this week may actually help them more, because going nuclear now will ensure easier confirmations for any future Supreme Court vacancies under President Trump.
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But at the State Department and elsewhere, the relatively slow pace of nominations and confirmations for top positions has left the Trump administration with a partial team in place.
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WhatsApp, which has around 1.5 billion users, said starting Wednesday businesses can use its WhatsApp Business API to send notifications such as shipping confirmations, appointment reminders and event tickets.
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By generating the codes on a one-time basis, Apple is able to offer access to Touch ID confirmations without re-using keys that could get stolen or leaked.
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The Cabinet's almost stocked: This week saw three more confirmations for Trump's Cabinet — Ryan Zinke at Interior, Ben Carson at Housing and Urban Development, and Rick Perry at Energy.
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The White House has consistently placed blame for its slow pace on Democrats -- the minority party in the Senate -- arguing they've employed stall tactics to slow-walk Trump's confirmations.
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With Obama's two successful Supreme Court confirmations long past, and all the current justices on the court putting off retirement, Obama's chances for filling another seat had appeared slim.
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This week in the "Lazy Senate," the spotlight is on the Senate's pesky 30-hour rule — the one that Republicans constantly blame for the Senate's slow pace of confirmations.
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But judicial advocates doubt Graham has the temperament to lead a committee that's in charge of judicial confirmations, as well as oversight of the Department of Justice and FBI.
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Republicans are frustrated that Democrats are slow-walking confirmations by maximizing their use of the 30 hours for debate allowed under Senate rules after filibusters of nominees are broken.
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"During May and June, South Africa received confirmations of unchanged credit ratings from all three major credit rating agencies," Mminele said in a speech posted on the bank's website.
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Then, the Republican majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option," in which they changed the rules for Supreme Court confirmations by requiring a simple majority instead of 60 votes.
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"We cannot accept that Vonovia, despite numerous confirmations, is not willing to accept the vote of Deutsche Wohnen shareholders," Deutsche Wohnen Chief Executive Michael Zahn said in a statement.
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But, as with confirmations, the 60-vote requirement on legislation would most likely end in stages, starting with baby steps like requiring only a simple majority to open debate.
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"Despite previous confirmations that guests could disembark in Punta Arenas, Chile, for flights, we were not permitted to do so," Holland America said in a statement on its website.
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Neither Ms. Verma nor Mr. Gottlieb had easy confirmations to their current posts, but neither seems as strongly determined to undermine the Affordable Care Act as Mr. Price was.
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"Republican control of the Senate allows Trump to maintain the ability to win confirmations for nominees and continue to fill posts that advance the administration's deregulatory agenda," Mills added.
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And for those immersed in the Google ecosystem, the free Google Trips travel planner for Android and iOS automatically creates itineraries by pulling in confirmations sent to Gmail accounts.
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Mr. McConnell cut out Democrats on Day 1 of this Congress, using every method to bypass them on deregulation votes, cabinet confirmations, a tax overhaul and health care policy.
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And after Mr. Trump was battered by divisive partisan confirmations of his appointees, the mild-mannered defender of government health care was confirmed by the Senate, 100 to zero.
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Chris Coons of Delaware, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, previously told Insider that Trump&aposs judicial confirmations will be "the single most important legacy" of his administration.
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The 12 Court of Appeals nominees whom the Senate confirmed this year represent the highest number of appellate court confirmations ever achieved during a president's first year in office.
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Mr McConnell's implicit threat to go nuclear again would make Supreme Court confirmations subject to a simple majority vote, leaving the filibuster intact (for the time being) only for legislation.
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Amidst murmurs that the two are back together — which Hemsworth knew we'd all "figure out" — Cyrus' pic seems to be another in a series of Insta-confirmations of their relationship.
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On the right is you after the cabinet confirmations, after the "pee tape," after the North Korea tweets, after Trump went after Jemele Hill, after Harvey Weinstein and everyone else.
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Only two more confirmations left — Sonny Perdue at Agriculture and Alexander Acosta at Labor — but their paperwork hasn't even been sent to the Senate, so this delay is on Trump.
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Most have been scheduled to shut their doors in July, according to information gathered from calls to the stores, shopping malls at the locations, and confirmations in local media reports.
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It is true that Trump was blessed—thanks mostly to a virtual freeze on judicial confirmations in the last two years of the Obama presidency—with more opportunities than Obama.
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Leonard A. Leo, the Federalist Society's executive vice president, has advised Mr. Trump on judicial nominations and worked on the confirmations of the two Trump appointees, Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.
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Now, with Robb's nomination as general counsel, and Kaplan and Emanuel's confirmations as board members, it is time to right the ship and pursue an agenda dictated by the law.
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Democrats argue that Republicans cannot simultaneously complain about the pace of confirmations while setting a record for the number of appeals court judges confirmed during a president's first two years.
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Bush's appointment is one of many Trump is expected to make to the federal court system, which has 21 vacancies thanks to Republican efforts to block confirmations during Obama's presidency.
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Mr. House did not dispute that Republicans were violating the spirit of the peace offering, but he added that Democrats could do little beyond pushing judicial confirmations past the election.
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President Trump's newly minted financial regulatory team — growing in size with recent confirmations — is sounding a friendlier tone than its predecessor, which restricted the industry following the 2008 bank bailouts.
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The measures include distributing pet travel documents and itineraries directly to airport managers, and a new process for loading animals onto planes that involves multiple checks and confirmations before departure.
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To step up the pace of confirmations, Mr. McConnell would probably need to keep the Senate in session for longer durations than the current Monday evening through Thursday afternoon schedule.
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During a hearing on Wednesday, members of the Senate Commerce Committee voted to approve the confirmations of Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel and Republican Brendan Carr to the FCC panel of Commissioners.
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The whistle-blower complaint has been filed and its credibility bolstered by Trump's own statements, the rough transcript memo released by the White House and confirmations from the White House.
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It is also the case that there just aren't many unanimous Senate confirmations since forcing a roll-call vote usually means at least one senator has a grievance to express.
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They too, will have a major impact, and their confirmations are indicative of how devoted Republicans are to advancing their goals of remaking the federal judiciary — no matter the fallout.
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A White House spokeswoman declined to comment on NHTSA but said "capable and professional staff" are filling essential positions throughout the government on an acting basis until confirmations go through.
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Trump's fellow Republicans, who hold a 52-seat majority in the 100-member Senate, have been sparring with Democrats over confirmations of nominees for cabinet posts and other senior positions.
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You can ask Google Assistant to show you your flights or your trips, for example, and it will return the details based on the booking confirmations you've got in your emails.
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They appointed Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin Scalia early last year, and since then set a record for circuit court confirmations in a president's first year.
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I share many objectives with the Partnership for Public Service, which is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to better staffing of agencies, and they push very hard for faster nominations, faster confirmations.
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He could easily finish the process before midterm elections, and the 2018 Senate election map means it's very unlikely those will end with Democrats retaking the body and slowing down confirmations.
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Their only option left to confirm Gorsuch to the court will require at least 50 of the 52 Senate Republicans to vote to change the rules for Supreme Court justice confirmations.
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Trump's attempts to pass an infrastructure reform plan have been largely left on the back burner on Capitol Hill, where issues like health care, tax reform and confirmations have taken precedence.
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Third, and most importantly, the rescission may well impact larger Executive-Congressional relations, including defense spending negotiations and confirmations of Presidentially appointed positions which have already threatened to be held up.
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But Republicans look set to gain as many as four seats in the Senate, surpassing expectations and giving Trump the ability to more easily secure confirmations of Cabinet members and judges.
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The White House also lauded the accomplishments of Hatch, one of the longest-serving senators in US history, citing his four decades of legislative accomplishments and his leadership on judicial confirmations.
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Without the responses from the nominees, Robert Jackson and Hester Peirce, she won't agree to a unanimous consent request to hold a vote on their confirmations, which would expedite the process.
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One of the tactics Leahy identified involved Rule 31, which requires that pending Senate confirmations be sent back to the president when the first session of a two year Congress ends.
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Trump is far from that spot, as the GOP's expansion of its Senate majority will make it easier to win confirmations for successors to Sessions, other Cabinet officials and conservative judges.
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"The most notable successes we've had over the last two years have been when the two of them are driving the train together," citing two Supreme Court confirmations and tax reform.
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Republicans are aggressively aiming to have four conservative jurists receive their confirmations to federal appeals courts this week, even threatening weekend work if all four are not put through the chamber.
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First, it wants to use only verified nodes for network support and transaction confirmations, meaning someone anonymous couldn't run a node and confirm transactions like they could do on bitcoin's network.
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The history of Supreme Court nominations is largely one of easy confirmations—though there have been exceptions, most prospective justices not tainted by a major scandal have tended to be confirmed.
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Demand Justice, a progressive outside group, accused Trump and McConnell of "packing the courts" and noted that by this point in his administration, former President Obama had gotten 81 judicial confirmations.
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While he stonewalled around 22020 bills passed by the House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has nonetheless greased the confirmations of more than 180 federal and district judges nominated by Trump.
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Judicial confirmations "191 Federal Judges (a record)..." -- January 26 tweet Facts First: Trump had not set a record for total judges appointed as of this point in a first presidential term.
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The Senate's top Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitchel McConnell (Ky.), teamed up to block Democratic efforts to push forward Obama's nominees, slowing down confirmations by the most in six decades.
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"We're working to try to convince them internally not to, but if they do there will be consequences," he said, such as blocking confirmations that need to go through the committee.
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Washington (CNN)Lindsey Graham, the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was unusually blunt last Thursday when summing up the current state of affairs when it comes to judicial confirmations.
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He said the decision led to lifetime appointments for 98 circuit and district court judges, saved the National Labor Relations Board and allowed Democrats to break the logjam of stalled confirmations.
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The confirmations establish a full commission at FERC, which is currently mulling a controversial proposal from Perry to overhaul the payment system for electricity and prop up coal and nuclear plants.
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Senate Republicans and the White House remain frustrated with the pace of executive and judicial branch confirmations and would like to accelerate the process by slashing debate time for many nominees.
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"In reality, as alleged in the indictment, Choi sent forged wire transfer confirmations in order to induce WrkRiot employees to continue working for the company without being paid," the DOJ's announcement says.
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Republicans were able to pick up the pace of confirmations last month after McConnell used the nuclear option to change Senate rules to process nominees faster by limiting debate time on them.
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Trump and some Senate Republicans have already knocked Democrats for the slow pace of Cabinet confirmations, which the minority party insists is because of concerns about the nominees' qualifications and ethics paperwork.
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Democrats complained over the weekend that Senate Republicans, in conjunction with Trump's transition team, were rushing the confirmations of key Cabinet picks before the required vetting by the Office of Government Ethics.
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Amazon confirmed it's rolling out an optional "Brief Mode" that lets Alexa users configure their Echo devices to use chimes and sounds for confirmations, instead of having Alexa respond with her voice.
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Instead, they have been near useless, tweeting their concerns about individual nominees, discussing the procedural tactics they will use to delay confirmations, or offering their milquetoast displeasure on the cable news networks.
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With another flurry of Senate judicial confirmations this week, the Trump administration will have placed 45 conservative judges on the nation's appeals courts — the federal courts where most final rulings are issued.
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"We certainly accomplished a lot that is sometimes overshadowed," Short told CNN in a recent interview, looking back on what his West Wing legacy will be, citing regulatory reform and judge confirmations.
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Trump came into office with a Republican-controlled House and Senate, but he's failed to persuade Congress to pass anything save for an embarrassingly small number of confirmations and stopgap spending measures.
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The average American's view of high-level judges and Supreme Court justices are shaped by major rulings or confirmations, Democratic pollster Pia Nargundkar said in an interview that aired Thursday on Hill.
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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised to bring back the 60-vote threshold for confirmations if the Democrats retake the Senate in November, which would functionally stop Trump's future Supreme Court appointments.
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Senators have also asked in the past about Kavanaugh's role in the confirmations of controversial Bush administration judicial nominees, although that point didn't come up in Wednesday's hearings, as of publication time.
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It evoked strong memories of one of Washington's most memorable judicial confirmations: the 1991 hearings of Judge Clarence Thomas, who was accused of sexual harassment by the law professor Anita F. Hill.
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Much of the 2014 campaign season was fought on the basis of hazy fears about ISIS and Ebola, but the actual consequences of Republicans' Senate gains had to do with judicial confirmations.
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She pored over piles of statements and trade confirmations, built spreadsheets and traded phone calls and emails with the broker who handled the account, Trevor Rahn, his manager and the manager's manager.
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While Mr. Trump's policies are one matter, his nominations to his cabinet and other senior positions are another, and there, Senate Republicans who will vote on their confirmations are in a quandary.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE.
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After successfully blocking Obama's nomination of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016, McConnell and the GOP also did away with the filibuster for Supreme Court confirmations last year.
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MORE (R-Ariz.), who is home in Arizona receiving treatment for brain cancer, applauded the confirmations and urged both the White House and Senate to pick up the pace on Pentagon nominees.
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Democrats have already sought to stall the confirmations of Steven Mnuchin and Tom Price, the nominees for Treasury secretary and secretary of health and human services, by refusing to attend scheduled votes.
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Other pressing matters include a potential strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces following an alleged chemical weapons attack, Trump's threatened tariffs against China and crucial Cabinet confirmations looming in the Senate.
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Paul, a libertarian lone wolf, says he will block Senate confirmations if Trump nominates either former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to be secretary of state.
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The Senate stayed in session for 57 straight hours from Monday to Wednesday as Democrats spoke through the night in opposition to the confirmations ofEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The growing tally of judicial confirmations, helped along by McConnell's own desire to shape the federal courts, is something Trump will likely highlight if he finds legislative victories harder to achieve next year.
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With Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing looming next week, Schumer reached an agreement late Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to fast-track the confirmations of 15 Trump-nominated judicial picks.
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"On Supreme Court confirmations and border security, any Republican nominee will be better than the incumbent Democrat, who does not like conservatives on the bench and does not like border security," said Brooks.
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THROUGH a mixture of leaks and semi-official confirmations, a picture is beginning to emerge of how the Trump administration will loosen the rules for counter-terrorism operations laid down by its predecessor.
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In a first, best world, we would have quick nominations, where vetting was good, and we would have pretty quick confirmations — and the need to have these stand-ins would be much less.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has prioritized the effort as well, even extending the Senate's working period through August — when lawmakers typically go home for the month — to push through more judicial confirmations.
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Would-be thieves are sending more realistic phishing emails in the guise of holiday sale mail from retailers, purchase confirmations and shipping updates, said Stan Black, chief security officer for software company Citrix.
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Sadly, one of my favorite Inbox features, the automatic grouping of travel emails (think flight confirmations, car and hotel reservations etc.) into a single bundle, has not made the move to Gmail (yet).
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Reviving the previous rules wouldn't affect the pace of appeals court confirmations, though, since the Senate at the time kept the 30-hour period in place for circuit and US Supreme Court nominees.
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Its initial partnership with Everlane showed customers able to chat with someone to get their shipping address changed, and take care of all the confirmations in the chat thread rather than by email.
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Stone's referral helped Pruitt get the tickets from a special allotment reserved by the University of Oklahoma, which the university can release at its discretion, the Times reported, citing confirmations from the university.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (N.
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Look at the Democratic filibuster threat against Samuel A. Alito in 2005 or the more than 30 Republican votes against the confirmations of both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in 2009 and 2010.
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You pay me 20.000 $ in Bitcoin and the bomb will not explode, but don't try to cheat -I warrant you that I will withdraw my mercenary only after 3 confirmations in blockchain network.
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In the eyes of many, Democrats in particular, the stonewalling of Judge Garland that led to Justice Gorsuch's nomination and the accusations of sexual misconduct against Justice Kavanaugh have tainted both men's confirmations.
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Obama nominated far more in his second term, setting a record with 183 nominations from January 2013 to 2014 (and 49 confirmations in that first year), but Trump is outpacing his first-term record.
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The main problem is that Senate Democrats did away with the filibuster for nearly all confirmations in 2013, meaning that Republicans only have to get a simple majority of the Senate to approve nominees.
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That could especially be true if the Alabama lawmaker follows a long-held practice of senators of merely voting "present" on their own confirmations, meaning Democrats would be one vote closer to defeating him.
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He got to work baking cupcakes for "birthday parties, confirmations, graduations, reunions, funerals, weddings," he told the news outlet, adding that he even made 750 cupcakes in one weekend for the high school prom.
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Accusing Democrats of abusing Senate rules to delay votes on Trump's judicial nominees, several senators in the past week have renewed calls for a rules change that would speed up the pace of confirmations.
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Some say that demanding physical expressions of sexuality or other concrete confirmations of queer relationships from creators creates a higher bar for queer romance than straight romance and can erase subtler, more complex relationships.
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President Barack Obama had 353 nominations and 310 confirmations at the same point, President George W. Bush had nominated 414 and had 294 confirmed, and President Bill Cilnton had 345 nominations and 252 confirmed.
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The court has often operated with fewer than nine members many times in our history and, more than a few times, presidents and the Congress have jockeyed, struggled, and contested over vacancies and confirmations.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (R-N.
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With confirmations starting this week, it's important that Democrats give a fair hearing to each of the nominees because they are all uniquely qualified for to lead the various agencies they were nominated to.
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Mica, Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (N.
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But Mr. Alexander appears undeterred by the gridlock that has ground the Senate to a halt beyond the conveyor belt of judicial and executive branch confirmations that take up almost all the chamber's time.
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"From day one, Senate Democrats have shamelessly obstructed, stalled, and filibustered the confirmations of hundreds of talented men and women who are eager to come to Washington, D.C., to make a difference," he said.
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While he was less likely to hold a hearing if blue slips were missing for district court nominees, Grassley forged ahead with confirmations of appeals court judges for whom blue slips were not returned.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (R-N.J.).
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Just as we demanded that the Senate do its job before—which eventually led to the confirmations of Cordray and Jones and a functioning NLRB—we demand that the Senate do its job today.
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Nothing but waste valuable time with your petty Russia-gate games, delaying important Cabinet confirmations and taking three needless breaks during this legislative session, capped-off with the latest sojourn that began April 10.
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The two reporters garnered multiple confirmations, but more important to note is that they had the story quite quickly — Wheeler's report had thudded onto Washington desks just five days before its secret was out.
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The most important lesson that can be gleaned through the history of Supreme Court confirmations is this: we must recognize that the Court, unlike the Senate or the presidency, is NOT a political institution.
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Republicans already moved last month to eliminate the use of the tactic for Supreme Court confirmations, allowing them to move forward with the approval of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch over near-unanimous Democratic opposition.
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In addition to providing tools like flight search, price alerts and currency converters, WorldMate allowed its users to forward email confirmations for flight, hotel, car rental and other travel-related receipts to the service.
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For about 13 minutes, Coinbase also reported issues with a provider of SMS 2-factor authentication that was impacting "user sign-in, signups, and confirmations for sensitive actions," according to the company's status website.
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They believe the politics of Supreme Court confirmations has limited all but a very narrow, very privileged slice of America to have a shot at a seat on the highest court in the land.
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It's far from clear that every Democrat is down to radically reverse a decades-old tradition of easy confirmations for FBI directors—and they would need Republican votes on top of all the Democrats.
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The lack of nominees for the key positions comes as Trump still needs to fill nearly 2,000 appointed positions in governments -- and as Democrats continue to slow-walk confirmations of the nominees he has named.
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Rep. Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (R-N.
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It is true that the new judicial politics leave us vulnerable to protracted crises, should power become divided between the White House and Senate, and confirmations grind to a halt for years at a time.
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"We have been working to prepare algorithms for winter 'at garage' for a while, so last weekend tests in real world was just the first time we got all confirmations," Dmitry Polishchuk, head of Yandex.
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The vote against Haas's and Bell's confirmations tees up a legal fight regarding whether the state Senate has the authority to oust the administrators, or if that authority falls to the Elections and Ethics commissions.
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Last year, I fine-tuned a model that tries to explain the factors behind how each lawmaker voted in Senate confirmations since Bork and then tries predicting how Supreme Court future confirmation votes will go.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders argued that a strong majority of the president's nominees have completed the confirmation process, resulting in 85033 circuit court confirmations and a new Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch.
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For example, it would stall confirmations of Mr. Trump's regulatory nominees — including Joseph Otting, who was nominated as comptroller of the currency, and Randy Quarles, chosen to run bank supervision at the Federal Reserve Board.
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The confirmations of Kavanaugh and Gorsuch since the Texas case was decided shifted the court further to the right, raising the possibility of the justices revisiting the admitting privileges law and other abortion rights questions.
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But the split would mean one less vote needed from across the aisle for big decisions like repealing Obamacare, passing the federal budget (which could include funds for construction of Trump's wall), and Supreme Court confirmations.
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When you're dealt a losing hand on the Supreme Court in the post-Bork era in which confirmations are party-line affairs, about the best you can do is make some noise and raise some cash.
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Plus, after spending most of his first year without legislative accomplishments, Trump has signed the tax cut that the GOP so craved into law, and he can take credit for success in judicial confirmations as well.
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It has taken an average of 84 days to confirm Trump's nominees, far longer than for the four presidents who preceded him, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a non-partisan group that tracks confirmations.
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None of that really matters, because all of those confirmations lapsed — Whitaker left the US attorney job in 2009 and was out of government for eight years, while Mueller left the FBI director job in 2013.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, could not be greater.
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If Democratic senators recognize the brutal two years ahead of them, as McConnell uses his heftier majority to shut down House Democratic priorities and steamroll through more judicial confirmations, they're not letting their anxiety show. Sen.
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John Mica (Fla.), Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (N.
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The slew of confirmations in 2019 illustrates the effect of a rules change, when McConnell invoked the so-called nuclear option to cut down debate time for lower court nominees and speed up the confirmation process.
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If she were to leave, President Donald Trump would have the opportunity to shift the court further to the right by nominating a third justice, adding to the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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"The current picture represents the continuing decline in the Senate's ability to perform what was once a routine function — consenting to the appointment of qualified judicial nominees," said Russell Wheeler, a Brookings Institution scholar who studies confirmations.
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NBC News compiled the lengths of the longest-running Supreme Court confirmations, and pointed out that as of July 20, Garland has tied with former Justice Louis Brandeis for the longest wait for a Supreme Court nomination.
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NBC News compiled the lengths of the longest-running Supreme Court confirmations and pointed out that as of July 20, Garland has tied with former Justice Louis Brandeis for the longest wait for a Supreme Court nomination.
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Needless to say, that dominance possesses risk, as any one entity with over a 50 percent share of mining could double-spend transactions, prevent transactions from gaining any confirmations and prevent other miners from mining any blocks.
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So while Democrats are obsessing over impeachment, and government funding remains at an impasse over funding for Trump's border wall, McConnell is going to stick to his knitting and steamroll Democrats with another wave of judicial confirmations.
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Dave Brat, (R-Va.), Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (N.
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As conservative groups grew agitated at McConnell for the slow pace of judicial confirmations, the GOP leader said he would push through judges at a faster pace, promising late nights and longer workweeks to get them done.
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One email chain released by the Archives describes wanting to meet at Mr. Miranda's house so that Judge Kavanaugh, who was a White House lawyer working on judicial confirmations, could receive "useful info" about two Democratic senators.
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In the Trump era, there has been breathless coverage of Collins around every significant vote, from the Supreme Court confirmations of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to a massive Republican tax cut for the wealthy to impeachment.
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Details of Mattis's legal agreement were in an ethics document released Saturday by the Office of Government Ethics, which also sent a letter to leading Senate Democrats accusing Republicans of rushing confirmations for several Trump Cabinet nominees.
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CLAIM 1: CABINET CONFIRMATIONS Spicer said at this point in President Barack Obama's first term, seven of his cabinet picks had already been confirmed, compared to only two for Trump as of the moment Spicer made the statement.
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"Medical confirmations of the lost pregnancy from OBs, chiropractors, and my acupuncturist use jargon that feeds more self-sabotaging thoughts that I am deficient," the actress and PEOPLE blogger admits about what she felt following her own miscarriage.
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The Chamber is "extremely concerned" about reports that the bank's opponents may attempt to derail the confirmations of the other four nominees if Garrett fails to get confirmed, wrote Suzanne Clark, the U.S. Chamber's senior executive vice president.
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After fuming for years over the pace of confirmations, Republicans say the years-long fight will soon come to a head, and the end result will dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to confirm most nominees.
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As former Harry Reid staffer Adam Jentleson noted in a piece for the Washington Post, forcing the use of this procedural vote is one of the few tactics Democrats still have to delay the confirmations on Trump nominees.
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And if Democrats flip the Senate in the midterms (a possible, if not likely, outcome), that will make confirmations even harder, and the process even less attractive to candidates, leaving more openings all the more difficult to fill.
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A Senate that continues in Republican hands will keep confirming federal judges at a record pace and substantially reshape the federal judiciary, whereas a Democratic-held Senate will slow confirmations down and force compromises on some key selections.
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They said the totality of Mr. Biden's work in the Senate and as chairman of the committee needs to be given its due for his handling of multiple confirmations and the passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
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The Chamber is "extremely concerned" about reports that the bank's opponents may attempt to derail the confirmations of the other four nominees if Garrett fails to get confirmed, wrote Suzanne Clark, the U.S. Chamber's senior executive vice president.
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While it is true that confirmations for Trump nominees lag behind the rate of confirmation for other American presidents, it is inaccurate to suggest that it is entirely the fault of the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans.
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He also raised the possibility that he may hold the Senate in session during October -- the final days for candidates to hit the campaign trail -- unless Senate Democrats were willing to cut a deal on federal judicial confirmations.
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On Washington WASHINGTON — When Senate Democrats in 2013 drastically weakened the ability to filibuster presidential nominees, it seemed as if they were creating a glide path for a president whose party controlled the Senate to speed through confirmations.
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Roberts, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005, has tried to shield the judiciary from the polarization in Washington, stepping up his efforts after the contentious confirmations of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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Placing the blame Trump has blamed the slow pace of filling his Cabinet in particular on Senate Democrats, who have used procedural measures to force the full length of time allowed for nearly all confirmations, slowing down the process.
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Flexa Ribeiro, a senator who sits on the infrastructure committee overseeing the confirmations, said Temer's nominations "showed a lack of respect" because they did not include any directors from Brazil's most important mining states of Minas Gerais and Para.
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WhatsApp is also planning on launching an "enterprise solution" for large companies with international presences (think big banks, airlines, etc.) so they can better connect with their customer bases for direct updates on statements, delivery confirmations, and other communications.
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In his opening statement during public impeachment hearings Wednesday, Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, gave one of the most explicit, jarring confirmations of a quid pro quo agreement implicating the Trump administration and the Ukrainian president.
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"I cannot recall a nominee refusing to answer such basic questions about the principles underlying our Constitution," said Leahy, a former chairman of the panel, who presided over the confirmations of President Obama's two nominees to the Supreme Court.
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Mr. Schneiderman is expected to announce that the bank routed some clients' trade orders to so-called electronic liquidity providers like Citadel Securities, then doctored trade confirmations and post-trade reports to say it had executed them in-house.
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And he went through previous Senate confirmations to serve as the United States attorney in the Northern District of California as well as when he served as the assistant attorney general at the Justice Department in the early 1990s.
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Washington has seen its fair share of brutal Supreme Court confirmation fights; the days of bipartisan confirmations of the sort experienced by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — whose nomination was approved by a 96-to-3 vote — are long gone.
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Rod Blum (R-Iowa) and Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (R-N.J.).
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE (R) to lead the Ex-Im Bank.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate hearing on Judge Neil M. Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court will begin on March 22005, the Judiciary Committee said on Thursday, setting the stage for one of the most contested judicial confirmations in a generation.
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Despite the quick votes, the nominees were not included in a group of dozens of confirmations that the Senate made later Thursday by unanimous consent, nor were two Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) nominees previously cleared by the committee.
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A President Sanders is going to need people who can process Medicaid waiver applications, write labor and environmental regulations that stand up in court, manage interactions with professional military and intelligence officers, and work with Senate allies on judicial confirmations.
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He said the bank told clients it was processing the trades in-house, even going so far as to alter trade confirmations, as part of an effort to make its electronic trading services appear safer and more sophisticated than they were.
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In addition to connecting businesses and customers without the need for a phone call, Bookings will also manage other aspects to appointment management, including sending out confirmations and reminders, handling re-scheduling and cancellations, updating the business staff's calendar, and more.
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Washington (CNN)The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations, making her the fourth member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to be approved even as Republicans and Democrats battle angrily over the pace of confirmations.
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Still, Republicans are unhappy with the pace of confirmations and are threatening to force a change in rules if Democrats continue to require the Senate to use all the time allowed once a vote has been cast to limit debate. Sen.
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The company just secured a permit for testing autonomous driving technology in California on public roads, which is one of the first official confirmations that Apple is indeed researching self-driving technology in an effort to compete with Google and Tesla.
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A. Google's Trip Bundles feature, introduced for Inbox last year, scans the contents of your incoming messages for things like flight reservations, hotel confirmations and rental car bookings in the same time period, but it can sometimes grab the wrong information.
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Ironically, with the filibuster gone in appellate confirmations (thanks to the Democratic senators) and the Senate control in GOP hands, Trump could materially change the Ninth Circuit (which currently has four vacancies and will have additional seats in the future).
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Instead, Portman is under fire from the White House, Senate Democrats and aligned outside progressive groups for his opposition to holding confirmations hearings and votes on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick Garland.
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"The key is to find a candidate who already has broad bipartisan approval — which is why he'll almost certainly look to sitting federal judges who had relatively smooth confirmations," said Steve Vladeck, a law professor at American University and CNN contributor.
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The seat that Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE lost is a pick-up opportunity.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday expressed sorrow about the growing likelihood that Senate Republicans will invoke the "nuclear option" to end filibusters on Supreme Court justice confirmations.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump personally interviewed two candidates with connections to the law firms of close Trump confidantes for influential US attorney positions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, an unusual move that has prompted one senator to threaten their potential confirmations.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE — failed to get through the committee at the time.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a seven-term Republican representing northern New Jersey.
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In recent years, as Supreme Court nomination fights have become more contentious, senators who represent states that the other party's presidential nominee carried in the previous election have become the most likely to break with their own party to support confirmations.
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Can the party that is already seen as anti-women afford to be the party that supported the nominations and the confirmations of what would be two Supreme Court justices that have sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against them?
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The group's members have also made 60,000 phone calls to members of Congress to oppose the House GOP's bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare, as well as the confirmations of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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And while he wishes the pace of other federal court judicial confirmations was faster, the President is repeatedly told by White House counsel Don McGahn that McConnell deserves giant credit for the major progress achieved in that area as well.
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Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, confirmations and other special occasions have become low-key affairs where Pinos and his loved ones come together within the safety of the church walls to quietly cherish the hours and days they're still able to spend together.
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Republicans pushed four conservative US appeals court judges through the Senate last week, and with a total of eight appeals court appointees, Trump has won far more Senate confirmations than his three immediate predecessors did at this point in their presidencies.
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If Democrats win control of the Senate next month, they could bring the rush of confirmations to an abrupt halt, much as Mr. McConnell did when Republicans won control of the Senate for the last two years of Mr. Obama's presidency.
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In Mr. McConnell's remarks to the Paducah Chamber of Commerce, in his home state of Kentucky, he said that legislative accomplishments like tax reform could be undone by future administrations, but that Supreme Court confirmations could have a more lasting impact.
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Demands for action from Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Judiciary Committee chairman who has been relentless on Mr. McConnell's behalf when it comes to judicial confirmations and who wants to see the bill become law before surrendering the chairmanship next month.
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Mr. McConnell has come to define his legacy by his ability to transform the judiciary, calling the confirmations "the most significant, long-term contribution we are making to the country" in an interview with a Kentucky radio station last week.
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He now intends to apply those techniques to judicial confirmations from the outside after his inside work on behalf of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and scores of federal judicial nominees seated on the bench since the start of the Trump administration.
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He also employed the nuclear option again, this time to lower the filibuster threshold for Supreme Court nominees, allowing him to install Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the high court, confirmations that would have been unlikely under the old rules.
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The courts are a longtime priority of conservative activists who have been grumbling about the failures of the Republican Congress, so a flurry of confirmations of nominees with known conservative views on cultural and government issues could quiet some complaints.
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While McConnell has the power to keep the Senate in session, a negotiated solution would be cleaner and allow Republicans to claim victories for passing the spending bill and for forcing through the confirmations of so many of Trump's nominees.
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Senate Republicans are already facing an unwelcome trio of Cabinet confirmations that are all dicey on their own: Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state, Gina Haspel to lead the CIA and Ronny Jackson to helm the Veterans Affairs department.
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In the vast majority of cases, Mr. Trump's administration has not even begun the lengthy screening process — which can take several weeks to as long as two months — that nominees must complete before their confirmations can be considered by the Senate.
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While it's unclear how many of those picks McConnell plans to seek a pre-election deal on with Schumer, the Kentucky Republican has underscored that he intends to follow his victory on Kavanaugh with more judicial confirmations before the midterms.
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The Breitbart sources said Priebus was brought into the White House for his connections to Capitol Hill, and is therefore responsible for the slow pace of Cabinet confirmations and the early reluctance by GOP lawmakers to tackle Trump's big-ticket initiatives.
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The advancement of these judges serves to send a message beyond their individual confirmations: It underscores the determination with which Trump and Senate Republicans have focused on transforming the courts, filling them with nominees who are younger, white, and predominantly male.
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"Some of that history has made this a much bigger and more powerful issue in the minds of conservatives and center-right voters than it has to progressives," Mr. Marx added, referring to Supreme Court confirmations going back to the 1980s.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Republicans' blockade of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is dominating debate on Capitol Hill but Democrats are equally frustrated by the pace of lower court confirmations, which they argue have ground almost to a standstill in the GOP controlled chamber.
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Judicial confirmations have been a bright spot for the Trump administration and Senate Republicans this year, with McConnell vowing to move nominees through the Senate as quickly as possible and Grassley taking steps to head off Democratic opposition at the committee level.
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"As a reminder, the purchases page is a way for you to look at your purchases: we don't use any information from your Gmail messages to serve you ads, and that includes the email receipts and confirmations shown on the Purchases page."
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"After receiving confirmations from Ukraine's and Hungary's transit companies, Ukrtransnafta and MOL, that oil quality meets all standard quality parametres including levels of organic chloride, Transpetrol will restart oil flows to the Slovnaft refinery and other clients," the company said in a statement.
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Tradition also didn't stop Senate Democrats from eliminating the filibuster for confirmations to cabinet posts and lower court judgeships in 2013, nor did it stop Senate Republicans from going a step further last month and ending the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
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"The forces in our politics are pushing things to the extreme," said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, who stood with several of his colleagues on Thursday to deride Republicans over their own to-do list of legislation and confirmations left waiting.
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"After receiving confirmations from Ukraine's and Hungary's transit companies, Ukrtransnafta and MOL, that oil quality meets all standard quality parameters including levels of organic chloride, Transpetrol will restart oil flows to the Slovnaft refinery and other clients," the company said in a statement.
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Their delay tactics under President Obama curbed confirmations and led then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to change the Senate rules by eliminating the filibuster for judicial appointments, except for Supreme Court nominees, thus requiring only 51 votes — the number Bush received today.
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The visits underlined Trump's focus on growing the Senate majority, which would undercut Democratic arguments about a victory in the House being a rebuke of Trump's presidency while also making it easier for the president to win confirmations over the next two years.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE because he had tried to shutter Ex-Im while in Congress.
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Lawmakers quickly followed with back-to-back votes on Raúl Arias-Marxuach to be judge for the district of Puerto Rico and Joshua Wolson to be a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania — giving Trump his 2628st and 28500nd judicial confirmations.
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According to CNN, Senate Democrats have privately worried that a filibuster may be pointless because Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could instead just rewrite the rules on Supreme Court confirmations — and make it so only 51 Senate votes, instead of 60, are required.
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Earlier this month, we were treated to an exciting hearing as Lisa Fairfax and Hester Peirce faced off with the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs over their potential confirmations to serve on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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The biggest test still awaits: whether, in protest of the treatment of Judge Garland, to filibuster the confirmation of Mr. Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil M. Gorsuch, which could lead to Republicans' eliminating the filibuster for court confirmations once and for all.
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Four years later, Justice Thomas's explosive hearings and narrow confirmation, by a vote of 52 to 48, cemented the process as inescapably political, even as the next quarter-century of Supreme Court confirmations often proceeded with a bipartisanship that has summarily vanished.
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Trump has nominated former New Jersey Congressman Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE to head Ex-Im.
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When President George W. Bush made his two nominations to the Supreme Court in 2005, picking Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Mr. Leo assumed the responsibility of coordinating outside campaigns to buttress their Senate confirmations.
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"Democrats have obstructed and delayed a record number of President Trump's well-qualified nominees, so it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that he regularly communicates with Majority Leader McConnell about how to increase confirmations in the face of Democrats' ridiculous behavior," Gidley said.
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Dean also cast doubt on the way that Kavanaugh's review has been handled, and he noted that what he saw as shoddy reviews of both Justices William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas during their confirmations ultimately hurt both of their tenures on the court.
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"I think it's constitutional, and I'd like to vote on it," said Graham, who has been involved in negotiations with McConnell and retiring Republican Senator Jeff Flake, who has pledged to hold up Trump's judicial confirmations until the Senate votes on the Mueller bill.
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I call the UPS store and ask if they can please hold my package, and then it's a mad scramble to type up a request to change my visa dates as well as print out hotel confirmations and more supporting documents ($11 for printing).
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So far, it doesn't seem like a site glitch a la Balenciaga, and all shoppers have had email confirmations that their purchases have gone through — and fingers crossed that we all don't wake up tomorrow morning with a sad refund email in our inboxes.
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He played a particularly large role in the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' Sen.
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President Trump could have a difficult time holding the conservative wing of the Supreme Court on such a question of plain meaning, including Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, who has previously written about the importance of such confirmations as a prerequisite to exercising such powers.
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D.) recently helped defeat Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, Trump's conservative nominee for the Export-Import Bank.
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Both sides have been willing to change the rules in somewhat arbitrary ways to speed confirmations of presidential appointees when they control the White House and slow them when they do not, but Republicans have played the game much more consistently and much more aggressively.
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Last Tuesday, Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a Virginia congressman, announced that he would be stepping down.
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"Democrats have obstructed and delayed a record number of President Trump's well-qualified nominees, so it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that he regularly communicates with Majority Leader McConnell about how to increase confirmations in the face of Democrats' ridiculous behavior," Mr. Gidley said.
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McConnell is the reason Trump finally agreed there shouldn't be witnesses — the president has come to respect his command of the Senate's rules after watching him push through the president's legislative priorities, including a tax overhaul bill and a record number of judge confirmations.
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As frustrations over confirmations grow, a group that supports Republicans accused the ethics office and its leader — in a highly unusual attack on the nonpartisan agency — of politicizing a process long viewed by both parties as arduous but essential for anyone serving in government.
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By privately influencing Mr. Trump to nominate people who reflect Republican priorities, congressional leaders not only win substantively, but the president gets to show off a perfect record of confirmations on the Senate floor, and a high rate of Republican support for his nominees.
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Though lawmakers have long deployed the filibuster — a procedural device that allows for continued debate to block or delay a vote — to suit their circumstances, Supreme Court confirmations have been viewed as another matter, insulated at least somewhat from the body's most partisan passions.
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The one place the Senate has functioned efficiently is in judicial confirmations, but even here Mr. McConnell has cast aside bipartisan norms and reduced the Senate to a rubber stamp for some unqualified, extremist judges, including those rated "unqualified" by the American Bar Association.
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There's a simple way to shield the country from prolonged suffering under a bad Supreme Court justice and remove the incentive for confirmations to turn into apocalyptic tests of political will: We should stop letting Supreme Court justices sit on the bench until they die.
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According to the Senate RPC statistics, confirmations by the middle of March in the year after a president was inaugurated break down as follows: Presidents George H.W. Bush had 483 confirmations; Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2023 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE had 600; George W. Bush had 600; Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 21625 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 2900,220006 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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I think it will fail, but I think you will see the Democrats start to reengage and invest on this issue in the future, because they have been able to rile up their base in order to vote on judicial confirmations, but this will change their mind.
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Afterward, Emma Dumain, a McClatchy reporter covering South Carolina and Congress, tweeted that Graham is in part motivated by his own view of the recent history of judicial confirmations — a self-flattering one in which he's been "fair" even at political risk, and Democrats have not.
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But he said the current, slower pace of confirmations is partly a result of the high number of judges Obama confirmed in the last session of Congress when Democrats controlled the Senate and unilaterally changed Senate rules, making in nearly impossible for Republicans to block judges.
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According to a Washington Post report Tuesday (and confirmations in Russian media), the U.S. Cyber Command disrupted the internet access of Russia's Internet Research Agency on Election Day in 2018 — a clear attempt to send a message to the so-called "troll farm" to back off.
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Five things Trump did not mention: - Russia - North Korea - Syria - Border adjustment tax - Delays on Cabinet confirmations Feel that samba beat Revellers from Portela samba school perform during the second night of the carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 28, 2017.
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The incident began, at least as best we can tell, around 4:30pm near the California-Oregon border and resulted in multiple pilot eyewitnesses, recorded air traffic control audio, and eventual confirmations from both the FAA and North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) that it did indeed occur.
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"The important point is that escalations in the separation-of-powers game are likely to produce further escalations, especially when the stakes are high and politically salient, and especially in a particular domain — judicial confirmations — where escalation responding to escalation is already the established dynamic," Primus writes.
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Whether you're happy with the Trump administration, upset or simply distracted by the widespread protests, raucous Cabinet confirmations, Twitter controversies and reports of spats with foreign governments, investors need to be aware of their biases and the impact they could have on their current investing decisions.
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This proposal deserves serious analysis not only because of its potential impact upon the court but also because there is a real possibility that it would be passed quickly by a Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic president, with two nominations and confirmations soon to follow.
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He could move to change the committee's rules to declare that the GOP alone could establish a quorum, a tactic that the Senate Finance Committee took Wednesday to advance the confirmations of Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin and Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Price.
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When the couple moved to New York, where Mr. Long grew up, she worked as a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis before helping to found the Judicial Confirmation Network, now known as the Judicial Crisis Network, which pushed for the confirmations of right-leaning Supreme Court nominees.
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Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonAl Franken says he 'absolutely' regrets resigning Democrats target Florida Hispanics in 28500 Poll: Six Democrats lead Trump in Florida match-ups MORE (D-Fla.) noted Senate leaders of both parties were negotiating a deal for a final vote on the confirmations.
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The Register, the largest newspaper in Iowa, in an editorial published Friday blasted Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Republican Party for bringing judiciary confirmations "to a crawl" and leaving 67 vacancies unfilled in U.S. district courts, including one at the Supreme Court.
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Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonAl Franken says he 'absolutely' regrets resigning Democrats target Florida Hispanics in 2020 Poll: Six Democrats lead Trump in Florida match-ups MORE (D-Fla.) noted Senate leaders of both parties were negotiating a deal for a final vote on the confirmations.
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Where possible make sure your purchases are always set to be confirmed as emails or SMSes, which will help you catch this kind of hack more quickly—and don't ignore any suspicious payment confirmations, even from retailers you're not registered with, as fraudsters could be testing the waters.
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Just how much latitude those senators need -- and should be given by the base on votes like Cabinet and Supreme Court confirmations -- is the challenge confronting Democrats now, as the party frantically searches for ways to protect those red-state Democrats without jeopardizing the base's energy and enthusiasm.
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Trump had only seen eight people confirmed to his State Department as of June 23, compared with at least 23 confirmations for each of the four presidents who preceded him by the same time, according to The Washington Post, which is tracking nominations with the Partnership for Public Service.
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While much of the country tries to contend with the unending stream of outrages in the White House, the Senate majority leader is pushing through a steady stream of Trump's far-right federal judges, often breaking precedent and allowing for their confirmations over their home state's senators' objection.
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Named the Article III Project for the section of the Constitution that established the judiciary, the organization will be led by Mike Davis, a former Republican Senate and White House aide who was a central figure in the confirmations of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Together with McConnell, McGahn and transition officials devised a strategy to speed confirmations through the Senate: Trump would prioritize appellate judges, rather than district court ones, and initially fill vacancies from states with two Republican senators or from states with Democratic senators that had been won by Trump.
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Instead, the Trump White House is focusing its attention on staffing for a potential second term and the steps the administration needs to take on nominations and confirmations, the official added — even though the same aide stressed that no one is yet drawing up lists with potential names.
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Schumer, who will become Senate minority leader next week, has privately indicated to McConnell that Democrats may not be willing to go along with quick confirmations for Trump's nominees if the Senate majority leader's caucus doesn't meet several demands, according to sources in both parties familiar with the matter.
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While lawmakers will be tasked with more than one thousand confirmations, including a Supreme Court justice, plus finishing the 2017 appropriations process and beginning the fiscal 85033 budget process, it is difficult to see just when the Senate might return to sportsmen's provisions—it certainly won't be quickly.
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The math simply isn't there for Nelson — he needed that undervote to have been missed votes and sympathetic court rulings to allow for extensions on provisional ballot confirmations, and on what constitutes valid signatures and ballots, and for those provisional and rejected mail-in ballots to exceed his current deficit.
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In the aftermath of Antonin Scalia's death and the surprise court vacancy, Mr. Hatch, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and its former chairman, is the one determined not to go forward on a nominee; Mr. Schumer, a longtime central figure in judicial confirmations, is aghast at such disrespect.
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Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonAl Franken says he 'absolutely' regrets resigning Democrats target Florida Hispanics in 2020 Poll: Six Democrats lead Trump in Florida match-ups MORE (D-Fla.) said Wednesday that Senate leaders were negotiating a deal for a final vote on the confirmations.
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By day's end, a plan to aid the fight against the mosquito-borne Zika virus, a measure to prevent terrorists from getting guns, scores of judicial confirmations, a sweeping bipartisan criminal justice reform package and basic appropriations bills were left scattered about like errant wrappers from the Senate candy drawer.
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Although the process generally took through March and April for previous nominees to complete their confirmations, that has only heightened concerns that without even a nominee announced for many roles, it could be months before Trump's State Department has the key people in place to run the nation's foreign policy.
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Tom UdallThomas (Tom) Stewart UdallDemocrats, environmentalists blast Trump rollback of endangered species protections Republicans should get behind the 28th Amendment New Mexico says EPA abandoned state in fight against toxic 'forever chemicals' MORE has proposed changing the rules on confirmations to require a vote on a nominee after 180 days.
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His audacious decision in February 2016 to prevent President Barack Obama from filling the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia contributed significantly to the election of Donald Trump as president, allowing Mr. McConnell to oversee the Senate confirmations of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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"While we anticipated a spike in demand this holiday season, orders have been even higher than expected and this was compounded by a systems issue that impacted order processing and confirmations," the company said, adding that the issue has now been resolved and it was working to address the backlog.
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Bill NelsonClarence (Bill) William NelsonAl Franken says he 'absolutely' regrets resigning Democrats target Florida Hispanics in 2020 Poll: Six Democrats lead Trump in Florida match-ups MORE (D-Fla.), this week, put on hold confirmations for three Interior Department nominees, demanding that Zinke give him specific assurances regarding Florida's exclusion.
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Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who has sought to streamline the nomination process, said he feared that the blockade would encourage the White House to give up on confirmations and instead leave top posts filled with officials serving in an "acting" capacity without having undergone review by the Senate.
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Bill Clinton nominees Ruth Bader Ginsburg (96-03) and Stephen Breyer (87-9) commanded warmer majorities, while subsequent confirmations have been more vexed: George W. Bush nominees Chief Justice John Roberts (78-22) and Samuel Alito (58-42); and Sonia Sotomayor (68-31) and Elena Kagan (63-37), both appointed by Mr Obama.
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Unlike the American Health Care Act and President Trump's Cabinet confirmations, which only needed a simple majority of 51 votes, Republican senators will need 60 votes to end debate on the appropriations bill and get it passed — which means they need to get their party in line and eight Democrats on their side.
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On Friday, President Trump announced his intention to nominate former representatives Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE and Spencer Baucus to serve on Export-Import Bank's board.
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The panel, in a 10-13 vote, declined to advance the nomination of Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican congressman from New Jersey.
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After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used the "nuclear option" to reduce the number of votes needed to confirm Supreme Court nominees — a process first initiated by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid for lower-level judicial appointees — Democrats have scrambled to leverage every procedural tool at their disposal to try to slow confirmations.
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Establishment choices tend to yield swift confirmations when your party controls the Senate, and assuming that no Lovecraftian horror lurks in his extensive paper trail, I would expect Kavanaugh to be confirmed narrowly but easily, with some skeptical abortion-related questions but little ultimate resistance from Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
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Democrats, with little recourse for stopping the nomination under changes in Senate confirmation practices, were determined to make a loud show of resistance and deploy any available weapons, which at this stage amounted to lodging procedural objections, issuing vehement complaints and articulating fears about the decline of the Senate's role in confirmations.
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The panel, in a 6900-2628 vote, declined to advance the nomination of Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican congressman from New Jersey.
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Unlike the American Health Care Act and President Trump's Cabinet confirmations, which only needed a simple majority of 51 votes, Republican senators will need 60 votes to end debate on the appropriations bill and get it passed — which means they need to get their party in line and win eight Democrats to their side.
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A 22019 analysis of Supreme Court confirmations done by Josh Blackman, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, found that eight justices had been confirmed in a presidential election year from a vacancy that opened up during that same year, the last occurring in 1932.
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Even Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, from deep-blue New York, has apparently promised not to touch the filibuster (he even promised to restore it for Supreme Court confirmations) should the Democrats get back in power—and if the filibuster remains intact, the Democrats' legislative agenda has crashed and burned before it's gotten off the ground.
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The persistence of Trump's support inside the Republican coalition has convinced most of his GOP critics that they cannot open a serious debate about his direction unless and until it threatens the party's hold on power and the advances on conservative priorities, such as tax cuts and judicial confirmations, which have flowed from that.
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Senators on Thursday teed up what could be a week of rapid-fire confirmations, taking procedural votes to move forward with the nominations of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be attorney general, Representative Tom Price of Georgia to be secretary of health and human services, and Steven T. Mnuchin to be Treasury secretary.
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WASHINGTON — Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's most prominent cabinet nominees — with their millions in assets and complex business arrangements — are moving unusually slowly through the government's arduous financial disclosure examinations, threatening the quick start promised for the new administration and raising Democratic concerns that their confirmations could short-circuit customary ethical safeguards.
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Before the Senate left for the preelection recess, they reached a deal with Democrats to hold final confirmation votes on a package of 15 judicial nominees, to the dismay of liberal advocacy groups who have been pushing Democrats to do what they can to delay confirmations, even if they lack the numbers to stop them altogether.
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It's common for judicial nominations and confirmations to pick up steam in the second year of a presidency, but with 49 judges confirmed so far in 53, Trump has already passed former president Barack Obama's progress in his second year in office — the Senate confirmed 48 lower court judges in 2010, according to federal judiciary records.
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Sure, the show has become a wildly simplified version of both the earlier seasons of the series and of Martin's books, but it's hard for me to be too angry about that when the showrunners keep distracting us from that problem with shiny things like epic fights and confirmations of countless fan theories coming a mile a minute.
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"Rep Mick Mulvaney for Budget Director, Rep Tom Price for Health and Human Services, Steve Mnuchin for Treasury, Scott Pruitt for EPA and Andy Puzder for Labor have repeatedly shown they will not put the American People or the Laws of our nation first, and I will vote against their confirmations," Schumer said in a Facebook post on Monday.
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"Trump's rhetoric has not only given cover to a lot of Republicans to say a lot of ugly things that most wouldn't have said, but has also given permission to Democrats to start spewing their anger and going after him," said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former Senate aide who worked on Senate Judiciary confirmations.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE's seat since he came under fire last year for saying he wouldn't pay dues to House Republican's campaign arm because it supports gay candidates.
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Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (R-Colo.) threatened on Thursday to stall Senate confirmations for Justice Department nominees unless Sessions backtracked on the move.
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Scuttle the confirmations of President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's cabinet nominations — at least that's the impression left by the barrel of ink spilled attacking his picks.
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The National Association of Manufacturers is ramping up its campaign against Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE's bid to head the Export-Import Bank ahead of a Senate hearing next week.
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There are an infinite number of ways to feel like you're getting to the bottom of something—forwarded emails, credential confirmations, guys texting while they zip up their pants at the urinal, people staring bug-eyed at laptops, making spastic hand gestures to the guy sitting next to them, trying to cram in a USB cord.
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Despite gripes about the usefulness of Facebook chatbots, "tens of thousands" of developers are building them, Messenger's head of product Stan Chudnovsky revealed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. And, 5,000 Shopify merchants are now distributing order confirmations and shipping alerts via Messenger, showing e-commerce companies are eager to reach the app's nearly one billion users.
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The move shows that the GOP is preparing for the possibility that it lose control of either the upper chamber or the presidency or both in the November elections, which would bring to a halt the massive success the party has had in pushing the federal judiciary to the right with rapid confirmations of ideologically conservative judicial nominees.
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She said that while it initially had been difficult to track whether individual requests for help were being answered by the group, she began to get confirmations Wednesday afternoon that the people whose addresses she had sent had been picked up by the Navy, including a 99-year-old man whose granddaughter had tweeted on his behalf.
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The director of the federal Office of Government Ethics on Saturday accused Senate Republicans of rushing confirmations for nominees in President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's administration.
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That's exactly what supporters of the Export-Import Bank are doing as they launch a full-court press to sink Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE's nomination to head the Ex-Im Bank.
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Pressed repeatedly by Democrats for a series of confirmations — including how he interpreted the scope of Sessions's recusal, whether he would publicly announce the close of a probe into Russian involvement in the election, whether he believed a special counsel was needed, whether he knew about the existence of an ongoing investigation — Rosenstein walked a careful tightrope.
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However, Raymond Nickerson's 1998 analysis of confirmation bias cites examples of science philosopher Karl Popper referring to an "incessant stream of confirmations, of observations which 'verified' the theories in question …There was, in Popper's view, no conceivable evidence that could be brought to bear … that would be viewed by an adherent as grounds for judging it to be false".
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Being able to get the card you want just by searching for it should be a huge help when you need to pull something up quickly — several times in the past few weeks I've been digging through Inbox to find flight confirmations, check-ins, and car rental info while approaching a customer service counter, and this feature certainly would have sped things up.
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It is a credit to the guile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) and the tactical foolishness of the Democratic caucus that confirmations now occur this way.
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But one source in Trump's orbit argued that the legal problems may be overstated, especially now that the Supreme Court has an in-built conservative majority following the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' Sen.
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In addition to district judges, Trump's more than 28503 confirmations include two Supreme Court picks, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' MORE, as well as 22019 circuit court judges.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican lawmaker from New Jersey who endured a rough confirmation hearing in November, has yet to secure enough support in the Senate Banking Committee to advance his nomination.
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Facts First: Trump might indeed break the record if he gets reelected, given his current pace, but it would almost certainly take him years; at present, he has appointed less than half the number of judges Ronald Reagan did over Reagan's eight years, according to data from Russell Wheeler, a Brookings Institution visiting fellow who is an authority on judicial confirmations.
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Update 2/15/18 5:53pm ET: Jereb appears to be walking back his claims via alternative social network Gab: Correction: This article's previous headline stated that white nationalist group Republic of Florida was "tied" to the Florida school shooter, Nikolas Cruz, based on statements the group's leader, Jordan Jereb, gave to multiple media outlets, as well as first-hand confirmations given to ABC by former classmates.
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The early departure of Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE, which caught congressional leaders by surprise, adds to a growing number of Cabinet vacancies in the Trump administration as well as a confirmations backlog in the Senate.
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After Mr. McConnell's recent comments, the office of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, his Democratic adversary, released data showing that Mr. Reid had been notably more productive in terms of legislation and confirmations in two years as majority leader with President George W. Bush than Mr. McConnell had been with Mr. Obama, whom Mr. McConnell famously said he wanted to make a one-term president.
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The candidates were asked how they would approach nominating judges given the success that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 85033 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE has had in shifting the judiciary to the right with the help of rapid confirmations by the GOP-controlled Senate.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican lawmaker from New Jersey, will tell the Senate Banking Committee that despite his record in Congress of trying to shutter the bank he will keep the agency open for business.
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The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) is the latest group to express in their opposition to the nomination of Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican lawmaker from New Jersey who tried to shut down Ex-Im while he was in office.
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In a release following that meeting, she said Trump agreed with her on the need to get the Export-Import Bank up and running, but in April Trump nominated Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE to lead the institution as its president.
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The New Jersey Business & Industry Association is the latest group to express their opposition to the nomination of Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican lawmaker from New Jersey who tried to shut down the Ex-Im Bank while he was in office.
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Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican lawmaker from New Jersey who endured a rough confirmation hearing in early November, has yet to sew up enough support in the Senate Banking Committee, which would block him from advancing to the full Senate.
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In 2015, he published a book called "Cîroc Boyz," featuring scans of exorbitant night-club tabs collected from bars around the world; earlier that year, he sent an anonymous stand-in to accept a trophy in his place at the NME Awards; and, at his most recent New York concert, in March, he forced media guests to check in under aliases that they'd received with their ticket confirmations.
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Senate Banking Committee: Hearing on the nominations of Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE to be President, Kimberly A. Reed to be First Vice President, Mark L. Greenblatt to be Inspector General, and Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE III, of Alabama, Judith Delzoppo Pryor, of Ohio, and Claudia Slacik, of New York, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors, all of the Export-Import Bank, 10 a.m.
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In March 2009, soon after Obama had become president and while Democrats held a majority in the Senate, then-Senate Minority Leader McConnell joined other GOP senators in a letter warning Obama that Republicans would intensely screen his nominees and exercise their home-state interests In the end, Obama won fewer appeals court confirmations than recent two-term presidents and had to wait longer for Senate approval of the nominees who cleared the process.
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In 28500, you may recall, former Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' 6900 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again MORE (D-Nev.) unilaterally decided to lower the threshold of 2628 votes to just 28503 votes for executive and judicial confirmations, except Supreme Court justices.
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He will succeed Chairman Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyWhite House denies exploring payroll tax cut to offset worsening economy Schumer joins Pelosi in opposition to post-Brexit trade deal that risks Northern Ireland accord GOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation MORE (R-Iowa), who has made judicial confirmations the panel's main focus during his tenure, drawing criticism from opponents for how quickly he moved nominees to the floor.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.), who was already keeping the upper chamber in session through part of the August recess to work through a backlog of judicial confirmations, may have another Cabinet nomination fight on his hands as well.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE mockingly thanked his predecessor former President Obama for leaving so many judicial posts vacant despite a Republican-controlled Senate slowing down confirmations during the last two years of the Obama administration.
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On Thursday, NAM will unveil its next batch of ads for inside-the-Beltway publications opposing the nomination of Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE, a former Republican lawmaker from New Jersey, who struggled during his confirmation hearing to sell himself as the potential head of Ex-Im.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE (R-Ala.) to the bank's board last month.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE (Ala.) for a seat on the Ex-Im Bank board.
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President Trump's other nominees include Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE and Kimberly Reed.
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Grassley alluded to his work in the Sessions's confirmation hearing, and the confirmations of others in the Justice Department, as well as what he said was his defense of Sessions when President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE wanted to fire him.
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It takes four justices to hear a case, but with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's successful confirmations of Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch to the court, the American Legion and the Commission may have the five votes they need to prevail.
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The powerful business group sent a letter to Senate Banking Committee leaders saying it could not support former New Jersey Republican lawmaker Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE to head the agency but that it will back the other four nominees to fill open slots at the Ex-Im Bank.
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The powerful business group sent a letter to Senate Banking Committee leaders saying it could not support former New Jersey Republican lawmaker Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE to head the agency but that it will back the other four nominees to fill open slots at the Ex-Im Bank.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE and his wife Linda made an unscheduled pause in their trip to pray for wisdom and guidance.
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Darrell Issa of California, John Mica of Florida and Scott GarrettErnest (Scott) Scott GarrettBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations Manufacturers support Reed to helm Ex-Im Bank MORE of New Jersey — former or sitting panel chairmen who all represent suburban areas — are heading into the final leg of the campaign in toss-up races that could eliminate 54 years of Capitol Hill experience in a single night.
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With the depressing confirmations of Godwin's Law that can be found every day in the comments sections of news outlets (surely, this article will be no exception), one often senses that "Hitler" is not so much a historical figure as a mythological one, that the war of 70-some years ago has already become something like the Trojan War had been for the Homeric bards: a major event in the mythic past that gives structure and sense to our present reality.
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That's why manufacturers support the nominations of Kimberly Reed, Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE, Judith Delzoppo Pryor and Claudia Slacik.
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Crapo said that each nomination — including Kimberly Reed, Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE, Judith Pryor and Claudia Slacik — will be voted on separately.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE (R-Ala.), Judith Pryor and Claudia Slacik — who've been backed by NAM — and inspector general nominee Mark Greenblatt.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has had two successful appointments to the court with the confirmations of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' Sen.
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Sen. Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioFormer Senate candidate, 'Unite the Right' supporter arrested in Florida on kidnapping and domestic violence charges US faces new crisis in Iraq Trump enters 2202 on a bull market high MORE (R-Fla.) said on Sunday that the news media should be highlighting the confirmations of judges appointed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2628 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 28500 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 6900 MORE instead of impeachment.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE (R-Ala.), Judith Pryor and Claudia Slacik, and Ex-Im inspector general nominee Mark Greenblatt View the discussion thread.
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Republicans didn't care much for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE or John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE, but they still joined bipartisan votes of 2628-28503 and 22019-3, respectively, in favor of their confirmations during the Obama years.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE (R-Ala.) and Judith Pryor to be members of the Export-Import board of directors and Janet Dhillon to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE (R-Ala.) and Judith DelZoppo Pryor to the board, giving the bank the required quorum to approve larger deals for the first time since 2202 under then-President Obama.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.) said he will withhold his votes on pending judicial nominees — confirmations that are a priority for McConnell and the White House — unless senators can cast votes on the Mueller protection legislation (The Hill).
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After a contentious hearing in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last year, EPA head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE hired Dourson as a senior adviser, a rare move for individuals nominated to Senate-confirmed positions before their confirmations.
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Spencer BachusSpencer Thomas BachusBiz groups take victory lap on Ex-Im Bank On The Money: White House files notice of China tariff hikes | Dems cite NYT report in push for Trump tax returns | Trump hits Iran with new sanctions | Trump praises GM for selling shuttered Ohio factory | Ex-Im Bank back at full strength Export-Import Bank back to full strength after Senate confirmations MORE, a Republican from Alabama, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and an Ex-Im Bank supporter, was nominated to fill one of vacancies on the board.
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During his time at Heritage Action, Chapman helped influence policy such as health care choices, fought for tax cuts, and endorsed confirmations of Justices Neil GorsuchNeil GorsuchFirst, we'll neuter all the judges Warren, Biden call for law to protect abortion rights Tlaib says mention of Kavanaugh was 'trigger' to walk out of Trump speech MORE and Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughSusan Collins in statistical tie with Democratic challenger: poll A disgraced Senate and president have no business confirming judges Manchin not ruling out endorsing Trump reelection MORE to the Supreme Court, according to the group's statement.
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