The AP reports Presidential nominees stymied; Senate mulls change "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell, in a rare moment of agreement, opened the new Congress this month by endorsing a bipartisan effort to find ways to improve an unwieldy, unproductive system."
"Reid noted that the slow-moving Senate is now responsible for confirming 1,215 executive branch nominees and the number keeps rising. Brookings Institution senior fellows E.J. Dionne Jr. and William Galston wrote in a study that the number of core policy positions the president must fill has risen from 295 when Ronald Reagan took office to 422 for Barack Obama."
"'Among the democracies, the United States has created - without intending to - what is almost certainly the most ungainly process of filling a government with qualified people,' Dionne and Galston wrote."
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