Senator Claire McCaskill via Twitter on her progress to date in getting her Senate colleagues to address secret holds on nominations:

Now have 43 Senators on the letter pledging to never secretly hold a nomination and calling for the end of this very bad habit.     about 2 hours ago  via UberTwitter  

….This is a permanent pledge. No secret holds now or ever. Working to abolish forever.     about 1 hour ago  via UberTwitter  in reply to ….

It’d certainly be ironic if any of those 43 who signed the letter was responsible for any of the current secret holds.

Previously:

Speaking of Harry Truman, it’s Senator Claire McCaskill (D)… (May 1, 2010)

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): even more on secret holds (April 22, 2010)

Round one: McCaskill vs. secret holds (April 20, 2010)

Update:

From Senator Claire McCaskill via Twitter (May 5th):

Now have 50 signatures on End the Secret Hold letter.More work on it today.Rules being broken by failure of Rs to reveal who’s holding noms. 15 minutes ago via web