Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that will hold Moniz's confirmation hearings, said in a statement that he's looking forward to discussing "the many issues" in play.
And I look forward to his confirmation," said Kennedy in a statement.
The first official confirmation came Wednesday evening in a statement from the law firm representing the players in their antitrust suit.
"Despite his superb qualifications and the wide bipartisan support for his nomination, these Democrat Senators repeatedly blocked an up-or-down vote that would have led to Mr. Estrada's confirmation," President Bush said in a statement, referring to the Democratic filibuster or threat of extended debate that prevented the nomination from coming to a vote on the Senate floor.
"Millions of people came together all over this country to stop the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and say we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to renewable energy," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)., who asked Trump's Cabinet nominees some of the toughest climate questions during last week's confirmation hearings, said Tuesday in a statement.
Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, which will handle the confirmation hearing, released a statement in which he objected not to Mr. Koskinen's nomination but to the fact that the president had not consulted him before announcing it.
The confirmation follows a statement from the Leeds United Supporters Trustthathat a number of parties had expressed 'firm interest' in the club.
Several analysts said United's share price had not been helped by a confirmation in its proxy statement last week that the Securities and Exchange Commission was questioning the timing of stock options granted by senior executives, among those at other companies.
"We are now facing a heinous coup, shamelessly aborting the revolution," claimed the political Islamists in a statement, as confirmation came through that the Brotherhood-dominated parliament had been dissolved by Mubarak-appointed judges.
Sadly we must wait to hear the full details and confirmation of any casualties," he said in a statement.
