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On the recordSeptember 4, 2025
I would just like to offer one set of figures into the record in the hopes that it helps clarify things. My office tells me that Trump nominations that have been confirmed in the Senate as of September 3 number 135. President Biden's nominations confirmed as of that same date in his first months, September 3 of 2021, was 150, not counting judicial nominations. Biden has 141, and Trump has 130. So the numbers are actually fairly close in terms of the outcome, although the processes have been different. But, again, I want to reemphasize my desire to work with the chairman to get these cleared. I voted for all three, and I would like to support them as soon as we can get, what seems to me to be, fairly elementary problems resolved. I yield the floor.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Discussing the confirmation numbers of Trump and Biden nominations in the Senate.

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