He was followed by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall who, in the February 1902 issue of Current Literature, wrote an article based upon his stylometric work titled "Did Marlowe write Shakespeare Karl Bleibtreueu, a German literary critic, advanced the nomination of Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, in 1907.
He was nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court in 1986, but the Senate Judiciary Committee did not advance the nomination for a vote after it was claimed that he had made racially insensitive comments, among other allegations.
In a result that broke down almost strictly along party lines, Democratic senators could not muster the support to advance the nomination of Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, to a final vote.
Senator George Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, who voted in May to advance the nomination, switched positions and urged Mr Bush to consider another candidate, while only three Democrats crossed party lines.
WASHINGTON — In what could be a crucial moment in the Obama administration's efforts to advance the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, he will meet this week with Senator Charles E. Schumer, the most influential Jewish member of the Senate, who is expected to press Mr. Hagel on issues concerning Iran and Israel.
WASHINGTON — In a boon for the Obama administration's efforts to advance the nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York told President Obama on Tuesday that he was optimistic that he could vote for Mr. Hagel's confirmation based on his grilling of Mr. Hagel on a variety of issues pertaining to Israel and Iran.
Very proud of the U.S. Senate for voting "YES" to advance the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh!
Accordingly, the 1839 legislative elections were crucial to Seward's legislative hopes, and to advancing the nominations of many Whigs to state office whose posts required Senate confirmation.
The news leaked a day before the Senate was scheduled to hold a procedural vote to advance the judicial nomination of the writer of the memo, David Barron, a former Justice Department official nominated to serve on the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
To advance the stalled nomination, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, used a procedural motion that required 60 votes in the 100-seat Senate.
Republicans were six votes shy of the 60 votes needed to end a procedural obstacle known as a filibuster, when long speeches are made to avoid a matter being settled, and advance the nomination to a confirmation vote.
