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GOP Senator [Shelby]: Not Saying 'No' to Obama Nominees Anymore
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Feb 09, 2010 01:12pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | JONATHAN KARL and KRISTINA WONG |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 9, 2010 07:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., had blocked more than 80 presidential nominations now before the Senate, but tonight he relented, saying he had simply been trying "to get the White House's attention" on two important national security issues related to his state.
Shelby had blocked the nominations by using a procedural tactic called a "hold," which allows individual senators to block votes on presidential nominations. But Shelby's spokesman, John Graffeo, says he will drop "most" of his holds.
Graffeo told ABC News that the purpose of placing the holds were to "get the White House's attention on two issues that are critical to our national security -- the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker acquisition and the FBI's Terrorist Device Analytical Center (TEDAC)." Both issues were unrelated to the nominations, and the latter regarded the Obama administration's decision not to move an FBI lab to Shelby's home state of Alabama. |
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