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Unnamed GOP Senator Blocking Appointment Of Key Bailout Overseer
TPMMuckraker — ... Last week, Sen. Chris Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the banking committee, issued a little-noticed statement saying that although the nomination "was cleared by members of the Senate Banking Committee, the leadership of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and all Democratic Senators," it was "blocked on the floor by at least one Republican member." (itals ours.) ...

Surprise! Bailout oversight not happening.
Daily Kos — ... Last week, Sen. Chris Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the banking committee, issued a little-noticed statement saying that although the nomination "was cleared by members of the Senate Banking Committee, the leadership of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and all Democratic Senators," it was "blocked on the floor by at least one Republican member." (itals ours.) [meaning theirs] ...

Hullabaloo — ... Last week, Sen. Chris Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the banking committee, issued a little-noticed statement saying that although the nomination "was cleared by members of the Senate Banking Committee, the leadership of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and all Democratic Senators," it was "blocked on the floor by at least one Republican member." (itals ours.) ...

Senate GOPer Blocking Appointment Of Key Bailout Overseer: We Need Your Help!
TPMMuckraker — ... And in case it helps, here's the statement put out by Sen. Chris Dodd, the chair of the banking committee, that first mentioned the hold. ...

Will we get confirmation on that bailout IG hold?
Daily Kos — ... I actually count three session days since Chairman Dodd's November 21st statement noting the hold -- pro forma sessions on the 24th, 26th and 29th. The calendar at Majority Leader Reid's site ...

Source: Senators Assume Bunning Placed Hold On Barofsky Nomination
TPMMuckraker — ... that technically, no hold had been placed, because there had been no request for unanimous consent on the floor of the Senate. A "UC request" would need to be made before calling for a voice vote on the issue, and it's at that point that the hold would officially go into effect. But in this case, Chris Dodd, the chair of the banking committee, had already been informed by the GOP cloakroom that one GOP senator wanted a hold put on -- which was what prompted Dodd to issue the statement that first revealed the existence of the hold. ...