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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (2775)	1/9/2001 3:32:38 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

After the Senate voted to reject the White nomination on strict party lines by a vote of 54 to 45, Mr. Clinton denounced the action as "a disgraceful act of partisan politics by the Republican majority and creates real doubt on the ability of the Senate to fairly perform its constitutional duty to advise and consent." As I recall from a Washington Post article initially, Mr. White had bipartisan support. It was only after Ashcroft got Senators such as Strom Thurmond to switch that Mr. White was defeated. I'd call Mr. White's defeat another example of the way the Senate's Old Boys Club works. I'll have to pull the article out and copy the appropriate quotes.