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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist poses for pictures on Capitol Hill Tuesday, May 17, 2005, with judicial nominees Janice Rogers Brown, center, and Pricilla Owen. The Senate's top leaders have ended their attempt to find a compromise on President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, but other members continued to work on a possible deal to clear five blocked appeals court appointees and end threats to change the long-standing filibuster rules. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

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"The Senate is not a rubber stamp for the executive branch," Reid said.

Nor is the senate allowed to veto Senator--it should vote. The clear fact is that these so-called "outside the mainstream" nominees are actually people who would be confirmed if given a vote.

The confirmations are about abortion, gay marriage, religious freedom, and other hot issues on which the democrats are too cowardly to state their positions.