Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Stop the Excessive Vetting of Executive-Branch Nominees

Biden has met some impressive goals, especially on gender diversity, but the whole system needs declogging.

April 16, 2021 at 11:30 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

A little more urgency, please.
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With four more executive-branch nominees confirmed this week, the Senate has now confirmed 33 of President Joe Biden’s selections to key executive-branch positions, as tracked by the Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.