Obama 'Frustrated' By 'Slow' Confirmation For Nominees, Expected To Re-Nominate

President Obama is increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of confirmation for his judicial and executive appointees, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Gibbs expressed the administration's discontent with what he deemed a deliberate commitment to obstructionism by Republicans in the Senate. But he added that he was not aware of any effort by the president's legislative staff to draft legislative language to dampen the use or effectiveness of the filibuster. "We have put a number of people into government in the first year," Gibbs said, in a response to a question by the Huffington Post. "But at the same time we have seen a pacing in dealing with nominations, both for the executive branch and judicial nominations that, I think, by almost any estimation would be deemed slow."