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Warner bucks GOP-ers, backs Holder (Politico)

 
Politico - Sen. Arlen Specter and other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee may want to derail or slow down Eric Holder’s nomination to become the next attorney general, but one of their just departed colleagues is going to bat for the nominee. (link)

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