Senate Deal Dislodges Nominees

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

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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