Dear Senator Dianne Feinstein: This is not about you.

[Ms. Toad]

74. You do understand that one process follows the other, right?

The fact that there are 20 nominees which have advanced out of committee and have not yet been voted on is because it is not an instantaneous process of moving out of committee and being voted on by the senate. That process takes time.

In the past 7 or so weeks there has been a single nominee advanced, assuming the Newsweek and Axios stories are correct. That means that when she returns, there will be a similar gap in the ability of the senate to approve nominees because there has only been a single nominees advanced out of committee in that time frame.

As far as "many of the nominees" being able to garner enough GOP support not to be affected - that is specifically the question I tried to answer. Out of the 25 nominees voted on, a single one was able to garner enough GOP support to advance out of committee.