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The six universal dives are asked of every subject at this tier. This is not one of them. It exists because of one thing this subject has been — office-holder — and a subject who has not been that never gets this page. That is why this record has 7 overlay dives to write rather than a number every record shares. All six base dives were written first, and that ordering is a rule rather than a habit: an overlay dive published on its own is a page about the part of someone chosen by whoever built it.
Second run of this dive, and it corrects the first in two places — both because it measures every Congress rather than four. Judges stay absent here for the same reason as before: the ledger and the courts page own that count.
The six base dives and the other 6 overlay dives are listed on the full record.
The confirmation rate here falls from 67.8% in the 117th Congress to 53.4% in the 118th — fourteen points, the largest single-Congress drop anywhere in this series. Over the same change the slowest tenth of nominations goes from 240 days to 317, which is the worst figure in the series, and confirmation without a recorded vote falls from 66.9% to 44.1%.
Share of civilian nominations received in each Congress that were confirmed in it. This record's two Congresses carry a rule; yellow marks the lowest rate in the series.
Ninetieth percentile of days from receipt to confirmation. The 118th's 317 days is the worst figure anywhere in this series.
A president does not face one Senate across a term. The chamber that confirmed two-thirds of this record's nominations in its first two years confirmed barely half in its second two, and took longer over the ones it did. Every cross-president comparison on this page averages over a change that large, which is the argument for showing the Congresses separately as well as summed.
The fourth of seven overlay dives on the full record. Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump appear in every chart here, and both carry this overlay — so the third run will have all nine Congresses from the 111th onward in front of it rather than the four the first one used.