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Published 1/16/2009 by Carrie Johnson at Wash Post In Congress
Attorney General-designate Eric H. Holder Jr. brushed aside Republican concerns about his record yesterday as he charted a new, less divisive course for the Justice Department on issues of national security, civil rights and financial crime.
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