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Gonzales Wins Confirmation as Attorney General
Reuters ^ | Feb 3, 2005 | Reuters

Posted on 02/03/2005 2:04:03 PM PST by mdittmar

White House counsel Alberto Gonzales survived a Democratic wall of opposition on Thursday to win U.S. Senate confirmation as the nation's next attorney general. He will be the first Hispanic-American to hold the post.

In approving Gonzales, the Republican-led Senate rejected Democratic complaints he had helped craft administration policies that contributed to the torture of foreign detainees following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albertogonzales; bush43; confirmation; doj; gonzales; hispanicamericans; term2; victory
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1 posted on 02/03/2005 2:04:03 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Thumbs down !


2 posted on 02/03/2005 2:05:24 PM PST by stopem
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To: stopem

?


3 posted on 02/03/2005 2:06:54 PM PST by RushCrush (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. - Reagan)
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To: mdittmar

I just love that magic number *60*


4 posted on 02/03/2005 2:07:03 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: mdittmar
Any chance he could be more demonized by the left than Ashcroft was?
5 posted on 02/03/2005 2:07:27 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: mdittmar

NAYs ---13
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)


6 posted on 02/03/2005 2:08:19 PM PST by cheme
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To: RushCrush

2nd. ammendment takes another hit!


7 posted on 02/03/2005 2:08:46 PM PST by ronnied (big red)
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To: OldFriend

What was the final vote?


8 posted on 02/03/2005 2:08:51 PM PST by CFC__VRWC
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To: mdittmar

dulce


9 posted on 02/03/2005 2:09:20 PM PST by Drango (tag line under repair)
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To: CFC__VRWC

Sixty to thirty six.


10 posted on 02/03/2005 2:09:40 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: OldFriend
Re: I just love that magic number *60*

I think we'll be seeing a lot more of that number in this term.

Woohooo !!

11 posted on 02/03/2005 2:09:51 PM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: cheme

YEAs 85
NAYs 13
Not Voting 2


12 posted on 02/03/2005 2:10:26 PM PST by cheme
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To: Joe Hadenuf

No mention of his legal status...please start a raving vanity.


13 posted on 02/03/2005 2:11:06 PM PST by PRND21
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To: mainepatsfan

They sure tried.


14 posted on 02/03/2005 2:11:43 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: ronnied

how so? what is his stance?


15 posted on 02/03/2005 2:11:43 PM PST by RushCrush (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. - Reagan)
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To: cheme

That list sure looks familiar.


16 posted on 02/03/2005 2:11:52 PM PST by Graycliff
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To: cheme

That is not right. It was 60-36.


17 posted on 02/03/2005 2:12:20 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: cheme

Bayh has apparently been infected by some sort of leftist space pod lately.


18 posted on 02/03/2005 2:12:22 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: cheme

Those were the Senators that voted against Rice.


19 posted on 02/03/2005 2:13:19 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (Mindless BushBot)
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To: ronnied
2nd. ammendment takes another hit!

Are you under the impression that the AG makes law?

20 posted on 02/03/2005 2:13:24 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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