11.   A Garza nomination could come early this summer to begin the Senate confirmation process.

12.   A key senator in the Republican-dominated confirmation process, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, said the team likely will be approved without trouble.

13.   Aides to Democratic senators say that nearly all judicial nominees have an uphill battle these days because of the ponderous pace the confirmation process is taking.

14.   Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and used a tactic known as a recess appointment to put Reynolds into office.

15.   Bush said he does not expect the confirmation process to find anything that would disqualify Chavez.

16.   But Democrats were determined to put Ashcroft through a rigorous confirmation process, perhaps the first partisan fight to confront the incoming Bush administration.

17.   But Clinton and his aides also pointed to a confirmation process that they said had become too harsh and too partisan.

18.   But Hatch, who as Judiciary Committee chairman has enormous influence over the confirmation process of federal judges, has stepped on some land mines with the Fletcher nomination.

19.   But if the confirmation process is a window into what people hope for and fear from the court at any given moment, they just might.

20.   But in the eyes of many, DiFrancesco hurt himself by initially insisting that Republican state senators ram her appointment through the confirmation process.