Panel Votes In Favor of Ashcroft; Senate Easily Approves EPA, Interior Nominees

The Washington Post | January 31, 2001| | Copyright

A bitterly divided Senate Judiciary Committee sent the nomination of Attorney General-designate John D. Ashcroft to the Senate floor yesterday as the full Senate approved President Bush's choices to lead the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The easy confirmations of Gale A. Norton as interior secretary and Christine Todd Whitman as EPA administrator left Ashcroft as the sole focus of partisan rancor over President Bush's Cabinet nominations. Nevertheless, leaders of both parties continued to predict that Ashcroft would be confirmed when the full Senate votes, ...

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