One way to ensure that is to require them to submit to questions from the Senate, and face a confirmation vote.

The confirmation vote was 97 to 0 as liberals and conservatives praised the judge.

But a judge named when the Legislature is not in session can begin serving immediately, and continue to serve through the confirmation vote.

This would lead to greater accountability by senators for their confirmation votes.

The confirmation vote ended a 56-day process that included a boycott by Democrats and partisan debate on the administration's environmental record.

In the end, the confirmation vote was 34 to 2.

On 29 August, he offered to resign before confirmation vote.

He had to wait until almost the end of the month for his confirmation vote, hanging there, slowly twisting in the wind.

Van Antwerpen told a local newspaper after his confirmation vote.

But it is not just a matter of jobs or confirmation votes.