Since December 2013, when Democrats changed the rules so that it only takes a simple majority to advance a president's nominees -- instead of the previous 60-vote threshold -- Republicans have voted to block 30 of President Barack Obama's nominees whom they ultimately ended up voting for.
Though the issue of immigration has raged on the campaign trail, neither measure won the simple majority needed to advance in the upper chamber.
What if there were a simple, cheap way to advance the education of millions of the world's poorest children, and to improve their health and that of everyone in their communities?
It's not simple to do advanced A/B tests comparing different campaigns.
Republicans hold a narrow 51-49 majoriny in the Senate and a simple majority is needed to advance his nomination.
Riders who mean what they say, and often say what they're doing, are the boon companions of screenwriters looking to advance simple plots.
In the first year of what Dean Blocker promised to be an annual program, alumniVentures grants would be given to projects that best followed one simple but transcendent criterion: to advance the cause of music.
They have made it sophisticated, exploiting the rich material offered by Rotary's simple, if profound, agenda: to advance world understanding, good will and peace via a fellowship of business, professional and community leaders, with emphasis on health, education and poverty.
Such a brutally simple analysis does nothing to advance the search for criteria that help us to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant similarities, and hence between good and bad analogical arguments.
The results of the modeling, sensitivity analysis and experimental studies are used to advance a simple phenomenological model for the dry-casting process that explains all the observed trends.
The East Coast crowd didn't fly into town to pitch another quasi-military action series, but rather to advance a simple plea: Make your torture scenes more authentic.
