But as Carter explained, Ball's "outspokenness on the Middle East would have made it difficult for him to pass confirmation hearings.
" While the rhetoric surrounding the fight over the consumer bureau has recently focused on its structure, behind the scenes it has been as much about Ms. Warren, who was widely believed to be unable to pass confirmation in the Senate last year.
Taken together, all these directions are innovative and promising, but the proof of concept in preclinical models has to move forward and successfully pass confirmation in prospective clinical trials.
The nominee must pass Senate confirmation.
Over the years, many political appointees have failed to pass parliamentary confirmation hearings when their real-estate speculation and "camouflaged move-in" were unveiled.
Running from May to July 2016, the FindingPlaces (FP) project enabled about 400 participants to identify 160 locations accepted by Hamburg's citizens, out of which 44 passed legal confirmation by the authorities.
Choosing a high percent inhibition cut-off like mean plus three standard deviations will limit the number of hits and the false positives amongst them, thereby ensuring a large proportion of compounds will pass the confirmation assay.
A tougher hurdle for most business people would be passing the Senate confirmation hearings for a cabinet-level position.
Also, as an agency head and former state attorney general, Pruitt would presumably have a good shot at passing a Senate confirmation hearing.
The moment Obama reiterates his distaste for earmarks, hillbilly neocon grifter "Senator" Richard Dickk" Shelby decides to put a hold on every single Obama nomination currently passing through the confirmation process because of two slices of prime Alabama pork he wants passed.
Why? Because, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, requiring a supermajority to do basic tasks like confirmations and passing laws would be used to "embarrass the Administration, to destroy the energy of government," and subject decisions of Congress to the "caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto".
