Dammit!
All these nominees appointed using the 60(end filibuster rule) and then a 50+1 vote IIRC. Why the double standard between Nominee confirmations and bills Obama?
Dammit...He is in the tank for all the hundreds of nominees and now secretaries the senate confirmed and has yet to confirm[:(].
SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Secretary of State- Hillary Clinton
Treasury Secretary- Tim Geithner
Department of Defense
Incumbent: Robert M. Gates
Obama's Nominee: Robert M. Gates -- Current Sec. of Defense
DoJ
Obama's Nominee: Eric Holder -- a U.S. attorney under Clinton
Department of Interior
Obama's Nominee: Ken Salazar -- U.S. Senator from Colorado (Confirmed by Senate)
Department of Agriculture
Obama's Nominee: Tom Vilsack -- former Governor of Iowa (Confirmed by Senate)
Department of Commerce
Obama's Nominee: Gary Locke -- former Governor of Washington
Department of Labor
Obama's Nominee: Hilda Solis -- US Representative (D) California
Department of Health and Human Services
Obama's Nominee: Kathleen Sebelius -- Governor of Kansas
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Incumbent: Steve Preston
Obama's Nominee: Shaun Donovan -- former New York City housing commissioner
Department of Transportation
Obama's Nominee: Ray LaHood -- US Representative (R, Illinois)
Department of Energy
Obama's Nominee: Steven Chu - winner of Nobel Prize for physics in 1997 (Confirmed by Senate)
Department of Education
Obama's Nominee: Arne Duncan -- Chicago schools superintendent (Confirmed by Senate)
Department of Veterans Affairs
Obama's Nominee: Gen. Eric Shinseki (retired) -- Chief of Staff of the Army from 1999 to 2003 (Confirmed by Senate)
Department of Homeland Security
Obama's Nominee: Janet Napolitano -- Governor of Arizona (Confirmed by Senate)
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
and hundreds of other nominees including Dawn Johnsen
Now you know what a real double standard on Bernanke would have been? To put him in through recess appointment if that were procedurally possible.