But if nominated, she is virtually guaranteed confirmation in the Senate, and time is running out to vet others.
And Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve vice chairman and Obama's nominee to replace Ben Bernanke atop the Federal Reserve, is now all but guaranteed confirmation after moving through the Senate Banking Committee on a 14-8 voThursdayday.
However, if there are in fact unknown alternatives that weren't considered in the set of competing hypotheses, Duhem warned, then the refutation cannot guarantee the confirmation of the last hypothesis standing (also see the entry on Pierre Duhem).
Robert Wilkie, President Trump's nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, won overwhelming endorsement Tuesday from the Senate Veterans Affairs Committeee, all but guaranteeing his confirmation by the full Senate later this summer.
But the new president's early months in office are likely to rise or fall in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's Senate, where a narrow Republican majority guarantees the confirmation of most nominees and an ability to set the agenda — but little else.
has gone "nuclear" on the voting for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, all but guaranteeing his confirmation Friday by altering longstanding Senate rules, all future appointments to the nation's highest court will require just a simple majority.
The negotiators agreed on a deal that would guarantee Cherno-myrdin's confirmation while giving some of the president's powers to parliament and the prime minister.
Republicans predicted they would allow a simple majority vote later this month, which would virtually guarantee Hagel's confirmation, but only if they see more information about his record.
With Republicans holding a slim 51-to-49 Senate majority, favorable votes from Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would guarantee Kavanaugh's confirmation and hand Trump his second Supreme Court justice.
Policy assessment often utilizes model forecasts and if the models and systems lying at the core of policy deliberations are nonlinear, then policy assessment will be affected by the same lack of guarantee as model confirmation.
His views illustrate why we cannot let his nomination become a partisan issue and thereby guarantee his swift confirmation.
