Senators are wrangling over how many nominees can be confirmed by the time Mr. Trump is sworn in on Friday, with Republicans insisting on a series of quick votes and Democrats objecting that they have not had adequate time to vet the candidates, many of whom submitted ethics disclosures late.
In an interview, Brazil's justice minister, José Eduardo Cardozo, who attended the meeting, said there was still a possibility of holding the vote in time and objected to characterizing the outcome as a setback.
Widespread belief identified Shiras as the changed vote, and he became temporarily the object of an outpouring of sentiment from both supporters and opponents of the measure.
Members will be able to preview, and vote, on an object that curators want to acquire, said Laurie Bohlk, a spokeswoman for the museum, which is undergoing renovation.
Just now I told everyone we're willing to have that vote, an up-or-down vote, and now the Republican leader objects to his own idea, so I guess we have a filibuser of his own bill".
But Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, objected to an expedited vote and Democrats instead accepted Mr. McConnell's proposal to finish the measure Wednesday morning and to consider a long-delayed renewal of Federal Aviation Administration programs in the interim.
In 2017, the FCC voted, (even though we filed and objected), to extend the 'freeze' to keep the accounting rules to be based on the year 2000, and will revisit them in 2018.
They voted to object to the scheme due to its landscape and amenity impact.
In the oil-rich emirate of Kuwait, nearly half the members of parliament voted to object to any visit by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority leader and head of Hamas's rival party, Fatah, on the ground that his stand against "Zionist aggression" in Gaza had been too feeble.
Meanwhile, Hertfordshire county council's cabinet voted to object formally to a similar proposal.
