Chertoff Nomination Gets Bipartisan Praise
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When President Clinton took office, he fired all the U.S. attorneys who had served under his Republican predecessor except one: New Jersey U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff. Chertoff had won support from a high-profile Democrat, then-Sen. Bill Bradley, who asked that he be kept on.
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated  U.S. Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff, an architect of the  Justice Department's anti-terror response after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks, to become secretary of homeland security.
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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the Senate's lone African-American, praised Rep. Ben Cardin on Wednesday in a Maryland Senate race pitting a black Republican against a white Democrat.
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Michael Chertoff will replace Tom Ridge, the department's first leader, who recently resigned citing personal reasons.
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The Senate Foreign Relations  Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Condoleezza  Rice to be secretary of state.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld praised President Bush&#39;s two nominations today to the national security team: Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state and Steven Hadley as national security adviser.
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U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman won a unanimous endorsement Tuesday from the Senate Budget Committee to head the White House budget office.
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One of the best appointments made by President Bush came last summer, when he selected former Missouri Sen. John Danforth to serve as this country&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations.
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Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday.
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The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has unanimously backed the nomination of retired vice admiral Michael McConnell as Director of National Intelligence.
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Take it from Michael Chertoff: The Homeland Security Department is no &quot;24.&quot; Chertoff, the department&#039;s secretary, said Friday he doesn&#039;t have a way-cool, state-of-the-art Counter Terrorist Unit like the one on the Fox TV show. Bad guys aren&#039;t foiled on an hourly basis. And not everybody is romantically involved with co-workers.
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WASHINGTON, June 7  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A bipartisan group of 101 Members of Congress -- led by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep.
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US President George Bush puts forward judge Michael Chertoff as his new homeland security chief.
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Conservative advocacy groups and their allies in the House and Senate in recent days have defied not only Democrats but also moderate Republicans and even the White House. Emboldened by an election that increased their ranks, they are heading into a new term with apparent mood for bipartisanship.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has picked up the backing of Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the 10th Senate endorsement Clinton has received in her presidential bid.
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President George W. Bush's nomination of Michael Mukasey to be the next U.S. attorney general appeared virtually assured on Friday when two key Democrats declared their support, despite concerns by others about the retired judge's view of torture.
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Arlen Specter on Thursday won the backing of Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans to be their new chairman, surviving complaints from abortion opponents after submitting an extraordinary statement underscoring his support for Bush judicial nominees.