WASHINGTON, DC (March 18, 2009) – The U.S. Senate confirmation of Jane Lubchenco, the celebrated and suspected icon of academia and the Pew philanthropies, to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and adjudicate between the fisheries and the fishing industries has inched closer.
The Senate Commerce Committee which, on Feb. 12, conducted a congenial joint hearing on President Barack Obama’s matched nominations of Lubchenco, a marine biologist from Oregon State University, and Harvard physicist John Holdren to head the White House Office of Science and Technology, decided last week to send the nominations to the full Senate.
But it was not clear whether the move, made informally off the floor of the Senate, signaled that the hold — or holds — on the nominations had been removed, according to committee sources.
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