Joe and Jill Biden will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Welcome to Ballotpedia's Transition TrackerDecember 21, 2020Prior to taking office on January 20, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden (D) and his team must prepare for the transition between presidential administrations, including selecting senior White House staff and appointees to top government positions. In 2016, there were 1,714 government positions subject to presidential appointment: 1,242 positions required Senate confirmation and 472 did not. The new administration is also responsible for filling thousands of other positions across the federal government, including in operations and policy. Every weekday, Ballotpedia is tracking potential Cabinet nominees, appointments, and news related to the Biden presidential transition. News
Transition in Context: How does the confirmation process work?The confirmation process for presidential nominees begins with a formal nomination from the White House to the Senate. The nomination is filtered to the appropriate Senate committee, based on its jurisdiction. The committee will then investigate and hold hearings on the nominee before producing a report—favorable, unfavorable, or without recommendation—to the Senate. Following a vote to close debate on the nominee, a simple majority vote is held in the Senate to confirm or reject the nominee. In the past 100 years, only three nominees have been formally rejected by the Senate: Charles Warren for attorney general in 1925, Lewis Strauss for commerce secretary in 1959, and John Tower for secretary of defense in 1989. Other candidates, including nominees from the Obama and Trump administrations, have withdrawn when it became apparent there would be insufficient votes in the Senate. What We're Reading
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