The Washington Post has a very cool new widget allowing you to track the White Houses confirmation process. As of now, the Senate has confirmed a mere 6.1 percent of the total appointees the White House will eventually need. But it’s not just a Senate chokepoint: The White House has only put forward candidates for a fraction of the open positions. Indeed, for all the focus on the 18 empty slots in the Treasury Department, they’re really not doing that much worse than anyone else:
The demographic information is also interesting. So far, the appointees have been 70 percent male and 73 percent white with an average age of 52.
