11.   Judicial nominees must be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Feinstein is a member.

12.   Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has said he hopes all Bush nominees could be confirmed within a week.

13.   She also says she will vote against confirming Cabinet nominees John Ashcroft as attorney general and Gale Norton as secretary of the interior.

14.   Senate Confirms Treasury Nominees The Senate confirmed eight nominees to top Treasury department posts, including Kenneth W. Dam as deputy secretary.

15.   Silverman, sources said, was a compromise candidate between the Democratic administration and the Republican Senate, which must confirm any nominee.

16.   Six judicial nominees were confirmed by voice vote Wednesday night.

17.   So, Lott permitted eight nominees to be confirmed on voice votes.

18.   The Bush effort to confirm the nominees was described by Democrats as the latest display of a highly confident White House.

19.   The GOP-controlled Senate has moved at a glacial pace this year in confirming judicial nominees.

20.   The Republican-controlled Senate has been slow to confirm judicial nominees.