Calculating Califf’s Course To Confirmation

Robert Califf got 89 votes in the Senate last time – but that’s also the least a Democratic nominee has ever gotten.

Robert Califf in fornt of FDA building
Califf is preparing to return to White Oak – If the Senate agrees.

The nomination of Robert Califf to be commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration sets off the confirmation process in the Senate: a committee hearing, a committee vote, and then a vote on the floor.

He’s been through this before, and cleared each hurdle, if not terribly quickly. With the Senate then in Republican hands...

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