21.   She knew perfectly well the volatility of immigrants living and working in the households of cabinet nominees.

22.   The committee and the Senate as a whole must be no less exacting in their evaluation of Tenet than they would be of any other cabinet nominee.

23.   The Senate is under no obligation to ignore the ideological views of cabinet nominees.

24.   Toiv says White House officials hope GOP Congress will defer policy battles with the president until after Senate confirmation of his Cabinet nominees.

25.   President Mohamad Khatami spoke to the Majlis, or parliament, at the start of a two-day nationally televised debate on his Cabinet nominees.

26.   Plamen Panaytov, a senior official in the center-right national Movement said Simeon would present a list of his Cabinet nominees by next Sunday.

27.   An embattled Cabinet nominee is quickly cut loose.

28.   Also this week, the Senate expected to vote on confirmation of additional Cabinet nominees, including his most polarizing pick, Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft.

29.   Cabinet nominees not yet confirmed and sworn in are Ashcroft, Norton, Thompson, Mineta, Principi, Chao and Martinez.

30.   Chavez met Monday with Fred Fielding, a former White House counsel who has been vetting Cabinet nominees for Bush, according to two Republican sources.