But Senate Republicans dismissed the no-confidence measure as a Democratic political ploy and stopped it from coming to a vote.
Tuesday's unexpected drop in consumer confidence marked the measure's third monthly decline in a row.
But despite some loosening of credit, the auto industry won't find many buyers until there's a marked improvement in consumer confidence, a measure that currently sits at historic lows.
With Abbas, Kerry was talking about ways to improve the Palestinians' living conditions as a confidence-building measure to improve the atmosphere for a resumption in stalled peace talks with Israel.
"We're trying to restore just a small measure of confidence through this kind of transparency and accountability, " Gillibrand said.
And there is something deeply fundamental extracted from in-person meetings, gauging the measure of confidence, trust, affection or dislike for someone on finally meeting.
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Monday's gains were spurred by news of a 12-month high in the Conference Board's measure of consumer confidence.
The Ifo barometer, a measure of business confidence in Germany, rose in July for the third month running.
The same day a key measure of consumer confidence dropped to recessionary levels.
One measure of consumer confidence showed it falling to its lowest level for nine years, in the second-biggest one-month drop since 1990.
Finally, what probably accounts for a good measure of the confidence and support the Obama administration has enjoyed is the fact that they are not Republicans.
Then, persuaded by the argument that actually all these targets were getting in the way and certainly not translating into people feeling safer, they scrapped that idea and went for a simple measure of public confidence.
The leading indicators the OECD uses for the UK include new car registrations, the Confederation of British Industry's business climate survey, a measure of the stocks of finished goods and a measure of consumer confidence, all weighted, added together and compared to an estimation of the trend.
Meanwhile, a measure of French consumer confidence fell in March from a month earlier.
"The stock market is only one small measure of investors' confidence in a country, " contends the president.
"This measure will help support confidence, but we need to recognise that its impact on near term growth prospects is likely to be relatively modest, " said Ian McCafferty, the CBI's chief economic adviser.
My sense is that the yen is still overvalued, pushed up by the relative weakness and competitive devaluation policies of other countries, including the U.S. But at least, for Japanese industry, the worst seems to be over, and confidence is returning, bouyed in no small measure by the blowout profit performance and forecast by the emaculate Toyota (NYSE:TM).
But that measure on its own will not restore confidence in the government's resolve.
The University of Michigan measure of U.S. consumer confidence sank to a 2-year low of 74.5, in December, from 76.1, the previous month.
"We trust that this precautionary measure provides parents and pupils with reassurance and confidence in the menu items that are on offer in our school kitchens".
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Still, bank bosses are placing more confidence in the ability of these whizzy new toys to measure the sorts and sizes of risks their firms run.
It has also claimed it will be difficult to measure children's acquisition of one of the key requirements - confidence.
Separately, American consumer confidence reached a six-year high in July, according to one widely tracked measure.
The office of the Police Ombudsman is vitally important to confidence in policing and justice in the north and Mr Hutchinson has repeatedly failed to measure up.
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According to many of the organisations, the measure would be of "no benefit" to the public and would damage their confidence with regards to recycling.
Ron Bloom also warned lawmakers not to pass a measure reversing the cuts in car dealerships made by the companies because it would shake market confidence.
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