61 vacancies at the Defense Department last year?

Senate May Begin to Fill Pentagon Posts
Military.com
By Brendan McGarry
July 16th, 2013
Posted in Policy

The U.S. Senate may soon begin to fill dozens of vacant positions at the Defense Department after lawmakers reached a tentative deal to avert a constitutional showdown over president nominations.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., threatened to change the time-honored rules for filibuster — an act or speech designed to obstruct legislative action — after charging that Republicans unfairly used the procedural maneuver to block President Barack Obama’s nominations for numerous agency posts.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., helped broker a deal between Reid, the Senate majority leader, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader.

There were 61 such vacancies at the Defense Department last year, including the position of inspector general, according to a December 2012 report published by the U.S. House of Representatives panel known as the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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