Obama Outpacing Bush on Nominations
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 28th, 2009 4:37 am by HL
Obama Outpacing Bush on Nominations
Despite the need to backtrack on some nominations and some key vacancies, President Obama is still sending the Senate more names and winning confirmations faster than his predecessor, CQ Politics reports.
Of the 385 posts at Cabinet-level agencies that a president must appoint, Obama had sent 100 names to the Senate as of March 24, of which 38 were confirmed. In contrast, Bush had sent 40 and gotten 30 confirmed by the same point in 2001. Obama has also announced more than two dozen other nominations that haven’t yet been submitted to the Senate.
Barred Libertarian Candidate Backs Murphy
Libertarian congressional candidate Eric Sundwall, who was pushed off the NY-20 ballot after being challenged by Jim Tedisco (R), endorsed Scott Murphy (D) in Tuesday’s special election, the Albany Times Union reports.
Said Sundwall: “Mr. Tedisco denies any involvement with the concerted effort by his supporters to knock me off the ballot. I don’t believe him. The ruthless effort by his supporters to knock me off the ballot without a word of protest by him proves his unfitness for any office let alone Congress in these critical times.”
In the last Siena poll, Sundwall was supported by just two percent of the district’s likely voters. However, it’s believed that Sundwall draws equally from both Republicans and Democrats, so it’s unclear how his absence from the ballot will change the race.
Eye on 2010 has more on the race.
