<< 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.
I think it’s a waste of time and unnecessarily constraining to the President to require Senate confirmation for every rinky dink position.