The 60-vote requirement has been applied only to five nominees who would now be considered cabinet rank, since rules creating that standard were set in 1975, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service report.

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The 60-vote requirement has been applied only to five nominees who would currently be considered of cabinet rank since rules creating that standard were set in 1975, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service report.

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According to the IRS, the new testing requirement would have applied to only about 350, 000 of those who registered for 2012 IDs, since lawyers, CPAs and Enrolled Agents (who have already passed a more rigorous IRS test), as well as tax preparers who are supervised by lawyers, CPAs and EAs, are exempt from the test.

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Second, the requirement that a change be applied uniformly would mean that a change to one search ranking could require other changes that Google might prefer not to make, which would discourage some ad hoc changes.

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Mr Dumper, Southampton's electoral manager, highlighted the impact of the new requirement for checks of signatures accompanying postal ballots with those sent when they were applied for.

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