Figueres confirmed the selection in a tweet, noting that the process of confirmation – a formality – is under way.
The system is unlike the US process of "confirmation hearings" – and deliberately so.
It is always an unending process of confirmation, correction, refutation … It is the collective social practice of science that in the end gives science its particular credibility and status.
On Monday, in a token, perhaps, of what may be his way of overcoming his political disadvantage, Macri appointed two new Supreme Court judges by decree, circumventing the usual process of confirmation by the Senate.
Repeatedly in the course of the process of confirmation for nominees for other positions, I have steadfastly maintained that the independence of the Executive Branch be preserved and its confidential documents and information not be released to further a confirmation process.
If a four-year-old child, welcomed now to the Episcopal altar rail to partake of the Host, makes a face and spits it out, no scandal attends; the sacrament, once attained to through the scholarly coming-of-age process of confirmation, is taken to be profanation-proof.
He has technically only been acting Chairman this whole time, as the process of confirmation generally lags well behind the succession process at the agency; the former Chairman, Tom Wheeler, stepped down shortly before the new Presidential term began, marking Pai's de facto promotion.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, philosophers of science treated scientific discovery as if it were off-limits to philosophical analysis; philosophers could evaluate the rational process of confirmation, the argument went, but the psychological process of discovery (the "aha!" moment) fell into the realm of creativity (Popper 1965).
Last night, candlelight vigils were held outside school buildings, while Democrats staged an all-night session in which Senators Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and others voiced their objections to DeVos's ideology, and to the precipitate process of her confirmation.
"Because Mr. Whitaker has not undergone the process of Senate confirmation, there has been no mechanism for scrutinizing whether he has the character and ability to evenhandedly enforce the law in such a position of grave responsibility," Katyal and Conway wrote.
