Reid: Bush Rejected Deal For Recess Appointments

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff

February 7, 2008

Senate Democrats lashed out Wednesday over President Bush’s handling of dozens of judicial and executive branch nominees, who they say are being held hostage by the White House in exchange for allowing Senate confirmation of a single controversial nominee, Steven Bradbury, who Bush has nominated to be assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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