1.   Moreover, as the wife of a sitting senator, Chao will likely be treated with additional deference in the Senate confirmation proceedings.

2.   That means that Senate confirmation proceedings for the Bush cabinet will begin under Democratic leadership.

3.   The nominee can then expect lengthy Senate confirmation proceedings as the Senate prepares for the fall elections.

4.   The Senate staffer said the election fight may actually tame Democrats at any confirmation proceedings, out of fear of appearing to be obstructionists.

5.   Those debts, which in retrospect look like clues to financial distress, emerged last year during his confirmation proceedings to become associate attorney general.

6.   Unlike most other committees, the Labor Committee has a policy against taking oral testimony in confirmation proceedings from anyone except members of Congress and the nominee.

7.   But in the end he reappointed Premier Lien Chan in a manner that dodged parliamentary confirmation proceedings.

8.   The US Senate Judiciary Committee commenced Tuesday confirmation proceedings of Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer, the second Supreme Court justice nominated by President Bill Clinton.