JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND SENTENCING COMMISSION NOMINATIONS:PATRICK LEAHY

From: Congressional Testimony | Date: July 23, 2008 | Copyright information

Congressional Testimony
07-23-2008
Opening Statement of Patrick Leahy Chairman, Committee on Senate Judiciary
Committee on Senate Judiciary July 23, 2008 Today, we will hear from three
people nominated by President Bush to high level positions in the executive
branch, J. Patrick Rowan to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of
the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, Jeffrey Leigh
Sedgwick, nominated to run the Department`s Office of Justice Programs,
and William B. Carr, Jr., nominated to be a member of the United States
Sentencing Commission When the President and Senate ...

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