msnbc.msn.com - 1/29/2009
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Sen. Arlen Specter says he will vote for Eric Holder as the next attorney general, paving the way for an almost certain confirmation.
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/28/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
My colleague Zack at TPMmuck just heard from
an aide to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. The...
aide definitively denied Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that Holder had given him "assurances" of avoiding future prosecutions of Bush intelligence ...
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Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/31/2009
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I like Michael Steele -- he's one of
those charismatic guys who'd be impossible not to like...
if you were trying not to like him. I've only met him a couple of times, but one was in a green room where we both found ourselves with an hour to kill. ...
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Steele
huffingtonpost.com - 1/28/2009
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An aide to Eric Holder rejected a report
Wednesday suggesting that the Attorney General nominee had pledged...
not to prosecute members of the Bush administration officials who were complicit in illegal harsh interrogations or torture. "Eric Holder ...
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Aide: Holder Has Made No Decisions On Prosecuting Bush ...
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Senate to Vote on Holder Confirmation Monday Evening
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... The full Senate will vote on whether to confirm Eric Holder as attorney general on Monday at 6:15 p.m., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday. Holder is expected to win confirmation. The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended that his nomination go through by a 17-2 vote , despite earlier criticism of Holder by the panel's top Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.). Only Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) voted not to recommend Holder's confirmation.
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From NBC's Pete Williams Arlen Specter , the Pennsylvania Republican who is the ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today he'll support Eric Holder when the committee votes on the nomination Wednesday.
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Specter Still Playing it Coy on Holder Nomination
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Specter will support Holder —
CNN Political Ticker 1/27/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday he will support the nomination of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder when the panel votes on it Wednesday.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, had ...
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/28/2009
AP - Eric Holder's nomination as the first African-American attorney general moved to the full Senate on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, as Republicans who earlier criticized the nominee determined he was well qualified for the job.
Panel Backs Justice Dept. Nominee —
NYT > Politics 1/29/2009
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved, and sent to the full Senate, the nomination of Eric H. Holder Jr. to be the nation’s 82nd attorney general. >
Holder vote to come Monday —
CNN Political Ticker 1/30/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that the full Senate will vote on the confirmation of Eric Holder as attorney general Monday at 6:15 pm.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 Wednesday to send the ...
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