"According to the rules, athletes have to provide evidence of permanent impairment to compete in the Paralympics, and we do not have satisfactory confirmation of that," said Peter Van de Vliet, the committee's medical and scientific director.
On Tuesday, the Russian foreign ministry alleged that Ukraine was deploying "US mercenaries" from a private security firm dressed as Ukrainian special forces - but there has been no confirmation of that, says the BBC's Steven Rosenberg in Donetsk.
"We have a new mayor, and a new City Council, and almost every other major legislature has some form of confirmation," said Mr. Weprin, chairman of the Finance Committee.
Mr. Franks said he did not know enough about Mr. Scalia at the time of his confirmation to say how he would have voted, but added, "Justice Scalia has made an outstanding intellectual contribution to the court".
Victor Homola (NYT) BRITAIN: OFFICIAL APOLOGIZES -- After drawing wide criticism when she was quoted as saying Queen Elizabeth II should vacate her palaces, Mo Mowlam, the cabinet office minister, apologized and said the comments were merely confirmation of something she said six years ago.
"Neither the White House nor Senate Democrats should yield to the narrative of an inevitable confirmation shutdown," said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, a national association of advocacy groups.
"You trade for a guy like Wheeler, or even — I hate to say it — when he pitches well for the first time on TV, it's kind of a confirmation," Alderson said.
The delay of serological confirmation was said to be usually 3 days within large hospitals; in Sri Lanka virus isolation took 2 weeks or longer.
"This is a start, but it doesn't address the real problems with the rules or with the confirmation process," said Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, who has proposed shortening the time that lawmakers can debate a nomination after cutting off a filibuster to 4 hours from 30.
Every event sold out — confirmation, as Dr. Greene said, of "the public's desire to connect with science".
