[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4321]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have spent a lot of time today with the 
President's Chief of Staff, Josh Bolten. I have said before, he is a 
very pleasant man. We worked for a long time today trying to work 
ourselves through the nominations. I think we made great progress. I 
think we have teed things up to do even more when we come back after 2 
weeks.
  To show my good faith, when Mr. Bolten said he wanted to work with 
us, I approved Mr. Filip, who the Attorney General said was very 
important to him. Judge Filip left a Federal judgeship and is now 
acting as the Attorney General's Chief of Staff, for lack of a better 
word.
  So we have made progress. And even through this that we have done 
today, I, in good faith, threw in some people I thought were important, 
even though we did not have them done--and that was not part of the 
original deal--and that was to confirm the head of the Internal Revenue 
Service. But we have done that.

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