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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	5/5/2001 7:51:41 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (3) of 769667

Looks like George will be feeling Bill's pain on getting his judicial nominations through the Senate: Senate Democrats: Home-State Veto on Judges Stays WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats, in a firmly worded letter, put the White House on notice Friday on how they planned to treat President Bush (news - web sites)'s judicial nominees. With Bush set to send his first batch of about a dozen federal bench nominations to the Senate next week, Democrats said they stood ready to block the confirmation of any nominee opposed by either of the prospective judge's home-state senators. They said this policy was followed during former President Bill Clinton's final years in office -- when any home-state senator could block a nominee -- and they intended to stick to it during the Bush presidency despite what they said were plans by Republicans to drop it. The letter, which mirrored a position staked out earlier in the week by Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, was signed by the nine Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites). The correspondence was addressed to committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican. A copy was sent to the office of the White House counsel. Hatch contends he never granted veto power to home-state senators but will again give their objections ``substantial weight.'' Democrats insisted in their letter on Friday there had been such veto power in the past and they intended to preserve it. ``The Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are committed to enforcing these policies and practices,'' they wrote. ``We hope you and your Republican colleagues will work with us and not attempt to alter what has been your consistent practice,'' they told Hatch. The Senate is now split between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, with Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) holding the tie-breaking vote. Democrats could block a nominee with a number of possible procedural delays, including one that enables them to require the approval of 60 senators to move to a final vote. There are now about 100 vacancies on the federal bench, many stemming from the Republican-led Senate's refusal to confirm Clinton nominees. dailynews.yahoo.com

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