Senate Deal Dislodges Nominees

By Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff
April 16, 2008, 12 a.m.

Dangling the popular highway funding bill as his hostage, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) struck a deal Tuesday night with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to dislodge a handful of President Bush’s stalled appellate court nominees.



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