The lone on-the-record confirmation is that of Hecht, a junior senator from Nevada.
Most of Gillibrand's notable or unexpected votes against Trump have been cast against his nominees — such as her lone vote against Jim Mattis's confirmation as secretary of defense.
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and Ed Markey — all Democrats — were the lone votes against Wray's confirmation.
In 2010, his lone appointee withdrew during a contentious confirmation process.
Paul, the lone Republican to vote against Barr's confirmation, told Politico that he did so because Barr has been "the chief advocate for warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens" — in particular, the USA Patriot Act.
Last summer, arguing for another female appointee during Sotomayor's confirmation, Justice Ginsburg, then the lone women on the court, told USA Today, "There are perceptions we have because we are women.
There is no short-term relief in sight for the overall system, as Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the lone Democrat in the Bush cabinet, warned in his confirmation hearings last month.
The lone exception for near-term victory could come with the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — but even that faces the prospect of a threatened filibuster by Democrats.
Although those hearings were a generation ago, Confirmation brought to mind more recent congressional proceedings with a lone woman witness facing a mainly white, male set of inquisitors, and another striking outfit, this time dark purple.
The gentle thrum of strings and stiff-upper-lip nobility of a lone horn offers fulsome, but doubtless sincere, support in surmounting bereavement, offering further confirmation that consolation is the dominant trope in modern stadium rock, rather than the exultation or hedonism that marked earlier examples of the form.
