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From: Suma	1/5/2006 11:15:45 AM
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ADMINISTRATION -- BUSH SNEAKS IN CONTROVERSIAL NOMINEES THROUGH RECESS APPOINTMENTS: Yesterday, President Bush took advantage of Congress's break and recess-appointed 17 individuals, bypassing the requirement for Senate approval. Several of these controversial nominees had been held up by the Senate for further questioning. For example, Julie Myers, Bush's appointee to the Department of Homeland Security's troubled Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), was "a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers and the wife of the chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff," but had been "criticized by Republicans and Democrats who charged that she lacked experience in immigration matters." Similarly, Ellen Sauerbrey, yesterday appointed as assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, had been opposed by ten women's rights and health organizations and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) noted that "it doesn't appear that this [refugee affairs] is an area where [Sauerbrey has] specific expertise."

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