Come On, Democrats. Clean Up the Nomination Quagmire Now.

November 10, 2021

The broken executive-branch nomination and confirmation process is going from bad to worse. The Senate managed to confirm 12 nominations plus a few judges last week, one of its most productive weeks all year. But that was the exception that proves the rule, given that 12 confirmations a week wouldn’t even fill the 805 positions that the Partnership for Public Service considers most important.