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Confirmation Wars Could Be Thing of the Past

By Keith Koffler
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 21, 2008, Midnight

Senate Republicans will not stand in the way of nominations made by President-elect Barack Obama, despite the bruising campaign and the prospect that they will have severe ideological differences with the picks, according to senior GOP lawmakers and their aides.

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Rep. Frank Pallone waits Feb. 8 for the start of a news conference to introduce legislation to keep arsenic and lead out of fruit juices.

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