Yes. DAG requires confirmation.
The President appoints more than 4,000 people, and around 1,200 require Senate confirmation.
There is an ongoing effort to reduce the number of appointees requiring confirmation.
<< There is an ongoing effort to reduce the number of appointees requiring confirmation. <<
There should be an ongoing effort to INCREASE the number of appointees requiring Senate confirmation. Obama wouldn't have been able to put dozens of totally unaccounted for "czars" running every type of bureaucracy imaginable if that were the case.