Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org Senate inches toward last infrastructure vote August 9, 2021 Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post: Biden needs Senate approval for a total of 1,237 positions — an increase of 59 percent positions in less than a decade, according to a new report from the Partnership for Public Service. “We’ve gone from irrational to just plain crazy,” Hiatt writes. More than an eighth of the way through his term, the president hardly has the beginning of an executive team in place.