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Reid: Johnsen Doesn’t Have Votes for DOJ Post

  • By Jessica Brady
  • Roll Call Staff
  • May 12, 2009, 4:01 p.m.

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have the votes to bring up President Barack Obama’s pick to run the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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