Fight Over Nominee Heats Up

By Paul Kane
Roll Call Staff

October 6, 2005

Administration officials kept up a campaign Wednesday to reassure Senate conservatives that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would not disappoint them, as centrists from both parties tentatively embraced her and, for now at least, swore off the use of a filibuster to derail the nomination.

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