Insiders say Branson was scanning for a partner for some time before the BA/AA tie-up, confirmed in 2010, turned up the pressure on him.
That's when Vice President Mike Pence cast his vote to break the tie, confirming DeVos as Secretary of Education.
It is the first time in history the Senate needed a Vice President's vote to break a tie to confirm a Cabinet nominee.
Lin also seemingly took an unnecessary risk by setting himself up for a last-second 3-pointer in a tie game, confirming after the game that he had sought out Coach Mike D'Antoni's approval to go for an isolation play.
While numerous media outlets initially linked the anti-Islam video to the violence in Benghazi, few news organizations had reporters on the ground to confirm such ties.
Woollard, wearing a black suit, shirt and tie, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth, address and his plea while his parents watched from the public gallery.
The nominee could have yielded the closest vote since Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tie-breaking vote to confirm Education Secretary Betsy DeVos earlier this month.
Pence's crafty, under public view style was on full display when with no fanfare, public statements, or defiant tweets, cast the tie-breaking voted to confirm the atrocious Betty DeVos as Trump's Education Secretary.
The accuracy of the theoretically calculated tension of the vertical tie (stirrup) and the horizontal tie (longitudinal steel) may strongly confirm the rationale of the present approach although the solution procedure is too complicated to be used.
I'm a touch beyond tipsy and my new mission is the VIP section, which is guarded by three of Jeremy Scott's beautiful blonde cousins (the family ties aren't confirmed, but I'm spreading the rumor anyway).
