[peekaboo]

Scalia did get a hearing, months ago and was finally voted out of committee to go to the senate for confirmation. Daschle then said Scalia would need 60 votes to be confirmed. Reich, on the other hand was never given a hearing, even though, Colin Powell has requested before hte committee, run by Dodd, that he wanted Reich and needed him badly to assist in the foreign missions he is so desparately working on.Dodd claims that Reich's nomination would never be brought to the committee.

I am glad to see Bush nominate both of these people. I saw the Scalia hearings, which went much like the Ashcroft hearings. Scalia is the most qualified attorneys ever to be nominated to the Labor Department. Kennedy and Leahy were the two in strongest opposition. I don't know which democrat finally voted with the republicans, on Scalia's nomination. His appointment has been held up for months and Daschle knew the votes were there for his confirmation, that is why he refused to allow the vote to take place. There were a number of democrats who would have voted for him.

[writmeister]

Heck, even traitor Jeffords was supporting the Scalia nomination.