hilary comptons, nominated to be solicitor of the department of interior, the lawyer for the department of interior, and they have 70,000 employees. secretary salazar thinks it is a good idea he have a lawyer. they are not going to allow that. william sessions, nominated to be chair of the united states sentencing commission. listen to this one, mr. president: we have been toll the reason he is not going to get approved is because he is from vermont and senator leahy is chairman of the judiciary committee. they want to embarrass our friend, the chairman of that committee, pat leahy. harold hongju koh, state department legal advisor, like the interior department, the state department, secretary clinton wants a lawyer there. a lawyer with the huge most important office -- no. robert groves nominated to be the director of the corner cens. and there are 20 others. just republicans recklessly refuse to confirm our new ambassador to iraq, listen to what they're doing now: they're holding up lieutenant general stanley mcchrystal, imminently qualified soldier who president obama and secretary g